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Title: Children of the Wild

Author: Charles G. D. Roberts

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Language: English

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CHILDREN OF THE WILD

by

CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS

Author of "Kings in Exile," "The Feet of the Furtive," etc.

New York
The MacMillan Company

1922

CONTENTS

I. THE LITTLE FURRY ONES THAT SLIDE DOWN HILL

II. THE BLACK IMPS OF PINE-TOP

III. YOUNG GRUMPY AND THE ONE-EYED GANDER

IV. LITTLE SWORD AND THE INKMAKER

V. ROCKED IN THE CRADLE OF THE DEEP

VI. TEDDY BEAR'S BEE TREE

VII. THE SNOWHOUSE BABY

VIII. LITTLE SILK WING

IX. A LITTLE ALIEN IN THE WILDERNESS

X. WHAT HE SAW WHEN HE KEPT STILL

XI. THE LITTLE VILLAGER AND HIS UNFRIENDLY GUESTS

XII. THE BABY AND THE BEAR

XIII. THE LITTLE SLY ONE

XIV. THE DARING OF STRIPES TERROR-TAIL

XV. DAGGER BILL AND THE WATER BABIES

CHAPTER I

THE LITTLE FURRY ONES THAT SLIDE DOWN HILL

In the brown, balsam-smelling log cabin on the shores of Silverwater,
loveliest and loneliest of wilderness lakes, the Babe's great thirst
for information seemed in a fair way to be satisfied. Young as he was,
and city-born, the lure of the wild had nevertheless already caught
him, and the information that he thirsted for so insatiably was all
about the furred or finned or feathered kindreds of the wild. And here
by Silverwater, alone with his Uncle Andy and big Bill Pringle, the
guide, his natural talent for asking questions was not so firmly
discouraged as it was at home.

But even thus early in this adventurous career, this fascinating and
never-ending quest of knowledge, the Babe found himself confronted by a
most difficult problem. He had to choose between authorities. He had
to select between information and information. He had to differentiate
for himself between what Bill told him and what his Uncle Andy told
him. He was a serious-minded child, who had alr