34

"HELD FIRMLY BETWEEN THE EDGES OF HIS GREAT BEAK" 42

"LEAPING HIGH OUT OF THE POOLS" 45

"VANQUISHED IN THEIR OWN ELEMENT BY THE MINK" 59

"AGAIN HE SHOT INTO THE SPRAY-THICK AIR ON THE FACE
OF THE FALL" 68

"SCUTTLED OFF INTO THE WOODS LIKE A FRIGHTENED WOODCHUCK" 74

"THE MOOSE CAME IN SIGHT UP THE BROOK CHANNEL" 79

"AT THIS MOMENT A PASSING SHRIKE SWOOPED DOWN" 85

"LAY MOTIONLESS BUT FOR THE EASY WAVING OF ITS FINS" 97

"ONLY THAT SHARP BLACK FIN, THAT PROWLED AND
PROWLED, KEPT ALWAYS IN SIGHT" 101

"DIRECTLY BENEATH THE SHARK THE STRANGER CAME" 105

"HE STRUCK OUT DESPERATELY, AND SOON CLEARED
THE TURMOIL OF THE BREAKERS" 111

"THE SOUTHWARD JOURNEYING DUCKS, WHICH WOULD DROP WITH
LOUD QUACKING AND SPLASHING INTO THE SHALLOWS" 121

"IT WAS THE COW MOOSE CALLING FOR HER MATE" 125

"THE PLUCKY LITTLE ANIMAL JUMPED AS FAR AS HE COULD" 136

"THEN, WITH THE LARGEST PRIZE IN HIS JAWS, HE SWAM SLOWLY
TO THE ROCK" 151

"LAY DOWN IN SULLEN TRIUMPH TO LICK HIS WOUNDS" 152

"THE BAFFLED SHREW JUMPED STRAIGHT INTO THE AIR" 158

"WITH A FRANTIC LEAP HE SHOT THROUGH THE AIR" 160

"TURN HIS NARROW, SNARLING FACE TO SEE WHAT THREATENED" 173

"WHEN HE STOPPED TO DRINK AT THE GLASSY POOL" 180

"NOISELESSLY FADED BACK THROUGH THE COVERT" 185

"THEN HE LEAPED THE FENCE AGAIN" 186

"HE WAS IN THE IRON CLUTCH OF A MUSKRAT TRAP" 198

"HIS COURSE TOOK HIM FAR OUT OVER THE SOUNDLESS SPACES" 203

"FOR ALL HIS SEEMING AWKWARDNESS HE MOVED AS DELICATELY
AS A CAT" 208

"THE WATER SPLASHED HIGH AND WHITE ABOUT HIM" 213

"THE SHREW-MOUSE ... DARTED OUT INTO THE LIGHT" 218

"HIS ROUND, SINISTER EYES GLARED PALELY INTO EVERY
COVERT"