The Adventures of Fleetfoot and Her Fawns
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Title: The Adventures of Fleetfoot and Her Fawns
Release Date: April 01, 2011 [EBook #35749]
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A True-to-Nature Story for Children and Their Elders
Author of "Twinkly Eyes," "The Little Black Bear," "Trail and Tree Top," and "Lost River, or The Adventures of Two Boys in the Big Woods"
MILTON BRADLEY COMPANY SPRINGFIELD, MASSACHUSETTS
Copyright 1920, by MILTON BRADLEY COMPANY
Adventures of Fleet Foot Bradley Quality Books for Children
THE ADVENTURES OF FLEET FOOT AND HER FAWNS
"Me-o-ow!" screamed Old Man Lynx, from the heart of the woods. The two spotted fawns heard the cry from their laurel copse on the rim of Lone Lake. But, though their big, soft eyes were round with terror, so perfectly had they been trained, they never so much as twitched an ear. Well did they know that the slightest movement might show to some prowler of the night just where they lay hidden.
Next morning, no sooner had the birds begun to chirp themselves awake, than Mother Fleet Foot fed the fawns as usual and ate her own light breakfast of lily pads, Then she lined up the two fawns before her.
"Children," she said, in deer language, "you have a great deal to learn before ever you can take care of yourselves in these woods. From now on we are going to have lessons."
"Yes, Mother," bleated the little ones, "but what are lessons."
"They are going to be as much like play as we can make them," said Fleet Foot. "You need practice in running, and we must play 'Follow the Leader' every day. Mother, of course, will be the leader. It will be lots of fun."
"Now listen, both of you," said Fleet Foot. "_This_ means danger! Follow me!" And she stamped her foot three times and whistled, as she leaped away through the bushes.
"Just watch my white flag, and you'll know where to follow," she called; and she showed them how, when she ran, she held the white lining of her tail straight up to show which way she had gone. This was because her brown back might not show between the tree-trunks.