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"The leader of the caribou herd ... returned the stallion's inquiring stare with a glance of mild curiosity" | (See page 122) Frontispiece |
"Some inexperienced seal had been foolish enough to lie basking close beside an ice-cake" | 7 |
"She led him farther and farther across the ice" | 13 |
"Would run gleefully to snap them up and eat them" | 14 |
"Some one on deck discerned the crouching bear" | 24 |
"He saw a big sucker settle lazily where the thronging fry were thickest" | 34 |
"Held firmly between the edges of his great beak" | 42 |
"Leaping high out of the pools" | 45 |
"Vanquished in their own element by the mink" | 59 |
"Again he shot into the spray-thick air on the face of the fall" | 68 |
"Scuttled off into the woods like a frightened woodchuck" | 74 |
"The moose came in sight up the brook channel" | 79 |
"At this moment a passing shrike swooped down" | 85 |
"Lay motionless but for the easy waving of its fins" | 97 |
"Only that sharp black fin, that prowled and prowled, kept always in sight" | 101 |
"Directly beneath the shark the stranger came" | 105 |
"He struck out desperately, and soon cleared the turmoil of the breakers" | 111 |
"The southward journeying ducks, which would drop with loud quacking and splashing into the shallows" | 121 |
"It was the cow moose calling for her mate" | 125 |
"The plucky little animal jumped as far as he could" | 136 |
"Then, with the largest prize in his jaws, he swam slowly to the rock" | 151 |
"Lay down in sullen triumph to lick his wounds" | 152 |
"The baffled shrew jumped straight into the air" | 158 |
"With a frantic leap he shot through the air" | 160 |
"Turn his narrow, snarling face to see what threatened" | 173 |
"When he stopped to drink at the glassy pool" | 180 |
"Noiselessly faded back through the covert" | 185 |
"Then he leaped the fence again" | 186 |
"He was in the iron clutch of a muskrat trap" | 198 |
"His course took him far out over the soundless spaces" | 203 |
"For all his seeming awkwardness he moved as delicately as a cat" | 208 |
"The water splashed high and white about him" | 213 |
"The shrew-mouse ... darted out into the light" | 218 |
"His round, sinister eyes glared palely into every covert" | 220 |
"He saw the gray forms of the pack" | 228 |
"A snipe which flew too low over the ditch" | 238 |
"Madly joyous, he killed, and killed, and killed, for the joy of killing" | 241 |
"Would whisk sharply into the mouth of the black tunnel" | 247 |
"Confronting the two great cats with uplifted paw and mouth wide open" | 258 |
"Once more the watchful sentinel appeared" | 260 |
"The noiseless wings were now just behind him" | 266 |
"His apprehensive ears caught a curious sound" | 274 |
"The big owl had been disturbed at its banquet" | 277 |
"Which seemed to scrutinize him steadily" | 278 |
"Those swift and implacable little whales who fear no living thing" | 296 |
"Far offshore, one of these monsters came up and sprawled upon the surface" | 300 |
"Up darted a livid tentacle, and fixed upon it" | 302 |
"A singular figure, descending slowly through the glimmering green" | 304 |