As the pointed head popped above the surface, it was confronted by two grinning heads which snarled savagely in its face and snapped at it in fearless defiance.

The mink was surprised and pained.

He had expected to find those two youngsters huddled together and already half frightened to death just at being alone.

He had _not_ expected to find them half so big.

In fact, there at home, and guarding their own domain, they looked to him much bigger than they really were.