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size is not ihstest 0! might, But the fearless sense or right. -.-Old Mother Nature.

In all the Green Forest are no nore fearless folk than Shadow the weasel and Mrs. shadow. This ines not mean that they have no mernles and so -are tree from dang- .,-, They have Just as many -nemles to watch out for as have

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any of the talks 01 their own size. They are themselves hunters. but also they are hunted. However, they do not let this worry them. They are at all times ready to meet danger without (ear. So it hap- pens that some much bigger and stronger hunters avoid the Weasel folk whenever posihle.

Under a pile at stones at the edge of the Green Forest, sha- dow and Mrs. Shadow had taken possession of a Chipmunk home.

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Shadow Just hung on to thlt ID.

What became of the Chipmunk who had lived there, no one really knows. That is, no one but she- dow and Mrsushadow knorw. Per- haps he moved out when they moved in. Anyway, he never was seen again a.i'ter they did move in.

It wasn't long a1t.er they moved in that Shadow and Mrs. shadow had 1 deep and precious secret. Perhaps I should say they had six deep and precious secrets. Any- way, there were six lively, squirm- ing babies in the comfortable bed or leathers and or Mouse fur in the snug bedroom in the ground under that pile of stones.

Until then, Shadow had spent much of his time roaming about, hunting and having a good time. Now he was a wstchtul papa. leav- ing that home only long enough

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to get -' d lond. He was keep- ing guard 'aver Mrs. Shadow and those precious babies.

Now Reddy Fox had discovered that Shadow was anending much of his time around that stone nlle and had shrewdly guessed what that meant. He guessed that there was a home down under that nile of stones and he guessed that there were babies in it. He wasn't especially interested in trvlnsz to catch Shadow and Mrs. Shadow. He had tried that and failed so many times that he no longer wasted time that wavy

Hut youm! Weasels were a very different matter. They had every- thlnrr to learn. So Raddy snent considerable time in the neigh- borhood nt that nile of stones and in time his patience and watch- fulness were rewarded. He saw sin little Weaccls pooping In and out between the stones. chasing each other and hnvinv A grand time

At first Rerldv thnunht they were alone. He rlecided that Shadow must be nit lwntlnw. Hut wher- xvas mother” Wnnm sre M r" "lid leave these babies alone? He donhled it verv much. A Wee"” mnther is s: very good mother. H- i-as sure that she must. be som-- wv-here In the neiirhbnrhood. and finally he dlvcoveredlher.

She was in an r-neriinrv PVYV"'l" the stones with onl" her snake- "'te head rhnwlnv. Von I("ow in Weasel”: hand in flattened, and Much the sham, of a snake head She was rlmht where .-iw noulrl lkeen :- watchful cw on ilwra. six

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