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'Tis only love of two makes one.' Whitefoot
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Thursday, September 26, 2024
Mr. and Mrs. Whitefoot
Whitefoot Finds Out What The Matter Was
' Pity the lonely, for deep in the heart
Is an ache that no doctor can heal by his
art. ' Whitefoot,
Whitefoot The Wood Mouse Is Unhappy
' Unhappiness without a cause you never,
never find ;
It may be in the stomach, or it may be
in the mind. ' Whitefoot
Whitefoot Spends A Dreadful Night
Timmy Proves To Be A True Neighbor
'He proves himself a neighbor true
Who seeks a kindly deed to do. ' Whitefoot.
Whitefoot Envies Timmy
A useless thing is envy;
A foolish thing to boot.
Why should a Fox who has a bark
Want like an Owl to hoot?
Whitefoot Makes Himself At Home
'' Look not too much on that behind
Lest to the future you be bhnd. '' Whitefoot.
Whitefoot Finds A Home At Last
'True independence he has known
Whose home has been his very own. ' Whitefoot.
An Unpleasant Surprise
'Be careful never to be rude
Enough to thoughtlessly intrude.' Whitefoot.
Whitefoot Finds A Hole Just In Time
'Just in time, not just too late,
Will make you master of your fate. ' Whitefoot,
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The dreadful game. |
Whitefoot Climbs A Tree
'' I'd rather be frightened
With no cause for fear
Than fearful of nothing
When danger is near.'' Whitefoot
Wednesday, September 25, 2024
Whitefoot's Dreadful Journey
''Danger may be anywhere.
So I expect it everywhere.'' Whitefoot
Shadow's Return
'' He little gains and has no pride
Who from his purpose turns aside. '' Whitefoot
he gets on their trail, they will be fortunate indeed if they escape him.
When Whitey the Snowy Owl swooped at him and so nearly caught him, he was not afraid as he dodged this way and that way. Any other of the little people with the exception of his cousin, Billy Mink, would have been frightened half to death. But Shadow was simply angry. He was angry that any one should try to catch him. He was still more angry because his hunt for Jumper the Hare was interfered with. You see, he had just found Jumper's trail when Whitey swooped at him.
So Shadow's little eyes grew red with rage as he dodged this way and that and was gradually driven away from the place where he had found the trail of Jumper the Hare. At last he saw a hole in an old log and into this he darted. Whitey couldn't get him there. Whitey knew this and he knew, too, that waiting for Shadow to come out again would be a waste of time. So Whitey promptly flew away.
Hardly had he disappeared when Shadow popped out of that hole, for he had been peeping out and watching Whitey. Without a moment's pause he turned straight back for the place where he had found the trail of Jumper the Hare. He had no intention of giving up that hunt just because he had been driven away. Straight to the very spot where Whitey had first swooped at him he ran, and there once more his keen little nose took up the trail of Jumper. It led him straight to the foot of the tree where Jumper had crouched so long.
But, as you know, Jumper wasn't there then. Shadow ran in a circle and presently he found where Jumper had landed on the snow at the end of that first bound. Shadow snarled. He understood exactly what had happened.
"Jumper was under that tree when that white robber from the Far North tried to catch me, and he took that chance to leave in a hurry. I can tell that by the length of this jump. Probably
he is still going. It is useless to follow him because he has too long a start.'' said Shadow, and he snarled again in rage and disappointment.
Then, for such is his way, he wasted no more time or thought on Jumper the Hare. Instead he began to look for other trails. So it was that he found one of the little holes of Whitefoot the Wood Mouse.
''Ha! So this is where Whitefoot has been living this winter!'' he exclaimed. Once more his eyes glowed red, but this time with eagerness and the joy of the hunt. He plunged down into that little hole in the snow. Down there the scent of Whitefoot was strong. Shadow followed it until it led out of another little hole in the snow. But there he lost it. You see, it was so long since Whitefoot had hurriedly left that the scent on the surface had disappeared.
Shadow ran swiftly this way and that way in a big circle, but he couldn't find Whitefoot's trail again. Snarling with anger and disappointment, he returned to the little hole in the snow and vanished. Then he followed all Whitefoot's little tunnels. He found Whitefoot's nest. He found his store of seeds. But he didn't find Whitefoot.
''He'll come back.'' muttered Shadow, and curled up in Whitefoot's nest to wait.
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Shadow dodges Whitey the Snowy Owl. |
Whitefoot Decides Quickly
''Your mind made up a certain way
Be swift to act; do not delay. '' Whitefoot
''Just as if I didn't have troubles enough without having this white robber to add to them,'' grumbled Whitefoot. ''Why doesn't he stay where he belongs, way up in the Far North? It must be that food is scarce up there. Well, now that I know he is here, he will have to be smarter than I think he is to catch me. I hope Jumper the Hare will have sense enough to keep perfectly still. I've sometimes envied him his long legs, but I guess I am better off than he is, at that. Once he has been seen by an enemy, only those long legs of his can save him, but I have a hundred hiding-places down under the snow. Whitey is watching the hole where I disappeared; he thinks I'll come out there again after a while. I'll fool him."
Whitefoot scampered along through a little tunnel and presently very cautiously peeped out of another little round hole in the snow. Sure enough, there was Whitey the Snowy Owl back to him on a stump, watching the hole down which he had disappeared a few minutes before. Whitefoot grinned. Then he looked over to where he had last seen Jumper. Jumper was still there; it was clear that he hadn't moved, and so Whitey hadn't seen him. Again Whitefoot grinned. Then he settled himself to watch patiently for Whitey to become tired of watching that hole and fly away.
So it was that Whitefoot saw all that happened. He saw Whitey suddenly sail out on silent wings from that stump and swoop with great claws reaching for someone. And then he saw who that some one was, Shadow the Weasel! He saw Shadow dodge in the very nick of time. Then he watched Whitey swoop again and again as Shadow dodged this way and that way. Finally both disappeared amongst the trees. Then he turned just in time to see Jumper the Hare bounding away with all the speed of his wonderful, long legs.
Fear, the greatest fear he had known for a long time, took possession of Whitefoot. "Shadow the Weasel!" he gasped and had such a thing been possible he certainly would have turned pale.'' Whitey won't catch him; Shadow is too quick for him. And when Whitey has given up and flown away, Shadow will come back. He probably had found the tracks of Jumper the Hare and he will come back. I know him; he'll come back. Jumper is safe enough from him now, because he has such a long start, but Shadow will be sure to find one of my holes in the snow. Oh, dear! Oh, dear! What shall I do?"
You see Shadow the Weasel is the one enemy that can follow Whitefoot into most of his hiding-places.
For a minute or two White- foot sat there, shaking with fright. Then he made up his mind. ''I'll get away from here before he returns'' thought Whitefoot. ''I've got to. He'd spent a comfortable winter here so far, but there will be no safety for me here any longer. I don't know
where to go, but anywhere will be better than here now.''
Without waiting another second, Whitefoot scampered away. And how he did hope that his scent would have disappeared by the time Shadow returned. If it hadn't, there would be little hope for him and he knew it.