Then it would vanish until the following spring.
On the day above referred to I saw Tom coming across the snowy fields that lay between the Edwards' farm and the old Squire's.

Guessing that he had something to tell me, I hastened forth to meet him.
"That old striped catamount has come round again!" Tom exclaimed.

"He was at Batchelder's last night and got two dead lambs.

And night before last he was at Wilbur's.

I've got four dead lambs saved up.