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(1880) Author: Albert Alberg - Tema: Fables
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33 64 FABLED STORIES FROM THE ZOO.

fastened upon it just behind the ear, and felt
that now at last it was ours. Our father also
taught us how to avoid the snares that the
trappers set for us and other beasts that inhabited
the forest, and his skill in discovering a trap was
simply marvellous; no matter how tempting
the bait, or how cunningly the trap was
concealed, he always somehow managed to detect
it, and by a timely warning saved us from
destruction. But then he had earned his
experience through bitter trials, for he had seen
many of his relations and friends caught in
these cruel gins, and he himself, when quite a
young marten, had once been taken unawares,
and while devouring a dead mouse that he
found at the root of a tree, had suddenly felt a
sharp pain in his leg, by which he knew that
he was a captive. All through the night he
struggled in vain to free himself, but only to be
more and more torn by the relentless trap ; and
at last, just as the dawn was bathing the whole
forest in a flood of rosy light, he heard distant
footsteps approaching, and with one more
despairing effort tore himself loose ; but his
wound was so deep and bled so much that for
a long time my mother thought he would not

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