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man may learn to stalk and study one animal and then hopelessly bungle the matter when he tries to approach the next because he is prone to attribute the same qualities to all. Nature has endowed each species with some peculiarity of its own—some method of protection for itself and young. Both Moran and Flash had learned these things and Moran had told Betty many strange problems which Nature has worked out—things about which few men know the truth.

She lay flat on her favorite point of rocks thinking of what had transpired there the night before. She frequently rested her elbows on the ledge and swept the far hills with Moran’s glasses, examining each slope and open park for signs of game. From all those things Moran had told her she now had a keener, more intelligent interest in the animal world. Little ways and habits of each species, formerly meaningless, now carried a