Animals -- Juvenile fiction
PAGE Skygak discovered that catching mice was Three-Spot’s chief vocation SKYGAK 12 He circled slowly above our heads 32 U-Chu-Ka never failed to answer our call U-CHU-KA 34 For the dogs had lost the lighter scent SANCTUARY 47 He questioningly sniffed the breeze THE FAERY NIGH...
PAGE Skygak discovered that catching mice was Three-Spot’s chief vocation SKYGAK 12 He circled slowly above our heads 32 U-Chu-Ka never failed to answer our call U-CHU-KA 34 For...
2. Part 2From that time, when he was not following Brother and me, or dozing on the front porch, or bullying the hens, he was trailing Three-Spot about, a relentless gray shadow, and if...
3. Part 3Foolish children we may have been, but we were not cowardly. It never occurred to us to rouse the grown-ups. Leonard was our friend and our responsibility. From my window the tw...
4. Part 4But it was really due to Cannon, our bantam rooster, that Henry’s convalescence was not entirely unendurable. Cannon was the eldest son of Liberty, a small bantam hen who had br...
5. Part 5We did not wait for the fishermen’s thanks. We were on the verge of tears. So the engine started again its steady drumming, the propeller churned the water into green and white...
6. Part 6I do not like even now to think of the half-hour which followed. So strong was the steel trap that the combined efforts of Brother and myself could only pry the cruel jaws apart...
7. Part 7From that time on we gave Hector his liberty for a few hours each day. And always, before releasing him, we would take the precaution to feed him well. We did not intend to have...
8. Part 8For the first time in my life I knew the fear of which men and books tell you. Many had been the stories told by hunters who passed the cabin, of the ferocity of mountain lions...