That was not very far, of course, because the man who set it had chained it to a stump outside.

But she thought it better, in such a trouble, to be out of range of unsympathetic eyes.

There in the hole she tugged and wrenched at the cruel biting thing till even her obstinacy had to acknowledge that it was impossible to pull herself free.

Then she tried blocking up the hole behind her, thinking perhaps that the trap, on finding itself thus imprisoned in the burrow, would get frightened and let go its hold.

Disappointed in this hope, she decided to adopt heroic measures.