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 ing in the snow. Without a particle of fear she dropped the protecting blanket over him and picked him up in her arms and quickly deposited him in the bottom of the sleigh, pushing him as far as possible under the seat. As the back of the sleigh was closed he could not escape and he was too spent to resist or to put up a fight if he had wanted to. Besides, he did not want to, for something that was wiser than he, told him here was a protector. Some one who had come to deliver him.

"All right, Mr. Fox," cried the spirited girl as she prepared to drive the gauntlet of the hunters. "They will have to reckon with me and the horse whip before they get you. You just keep quiet and we will give them the slip." With this assurance she whipped up the horse.

They were barely a hundred feet away when the hounds broke into the roadway in full cry. But again their baying was resolved into perplexed yelping and finally died away.

Twenty rods further on Kitty encountered