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Children of the Wild

CHAPTER IX
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For the time, at least, his appetite was quite gone.
"Uncomprehending, but very anxious, the calf had watched the swift duel.

The finish of it dismayed her, but, of course, she did not know why.

She could only feel that, in spite of the disappearance of the bear, it was not altogether satisfactory.

She had trembled instinctively at sight of the bear.

And now, curiously enough, she trembled at the sight of her mother, lying there in a heap, so still." Uncle Andy's way of putting it was somehow so vivid that the Child trembled too at that.
"After a while," continued Uncle Andy, "when she saw that her mother made no sign of rising and coming to her, she came staggering down from her place under the bush, her long, awkward legs very difficult to manage.


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