The Little Sly One is good enough for us to call her, for she is even slyer when she is a she than when he is a he.

Is that quite clear ?" "Of _course_!" exclaimed the Babe.
"Well, the Little Sly One was a lonely orphan.

She had had a mother and a sister and two brothers; but a man with a dog and a gun had happened on the mouth of the cave in which they lived.

The dog had hastily gone in.

There was a terrible noise in the cave all of a sudden, and the dog would have hastily come out again, but for the fact that he was no longer able to come or go anywhere.