English: Identifier: wildanimalsihave00seto

Title: Wild animals I have known : and 200 drawings Year: 1898 (1890s) Authors: Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946 Subjects: Animals Animals Publisher: New York : Scribner Contributing Library: New York Public Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing After Image: Redrutl Saving Runtie. Rebuff fair a chance. With murderous intent to cutoff the hindmost straggler, he made a dash.Brownie could not have seen him until too late,but Redruff did. He flew for that red-hairedcutthroat; his weapons were his fists, that is,the knob-joints of the wings, and what a blowhe could strike ! At the first onset he struckthe squirrel square on the end of the nose, hisweakest spot, and sent him reeling; he stag-gered and wriggled into a brush-pile, where hehad expected to carry the little grouse, and therelay gasping with red drops trickling down hiswicked snout. The partridges left him lyingthere, and what became of him they neverknew, but he troubled them no more. The family went on toward the water, buta cow had left deep tracks in the sandy loam,and into one of these fell one of the chicks andpeeped in dire distress when he found he couldnot get out. This was a fix. Neither old one seemed toknow what to do, but as they trampled vainlyround the edge, the sandy

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