But you would not have known them for the same creatures as those which had started out that morning.

Then they had played carelessly and gone boldly, thinking not of enemies and fearing none.

Now they crept noiselessly, sniffing this way and that, and never showing their noses outside a thicket without first taking observations.

For life was now a very different matter with them.

Never in all their lives before had they come across so many hostile and threatening smells as they encountered this one afternoon.