The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-30
NO. 1.-THE VOICE FROM THE rHlckET.
BY Roberts, kindred Of the Wild,
1.-THE Forge in the Forest" 1.-THE Heart of the
Ancient Wood.'


1.-THE Forge in the Forest 1.-THE Heart of the
Ancient Wood"
Copyright, 1908, by Robert Howard Russell)
IL silence the young thcket the hill.
down over the rugged hside over the pale
and the pale green budding birches Against
light hemock ancient spruce, the
hickets of fir seedlings took
deep seem almost black On the crest Of the hill stood
white towering ranplSes the tme-beached trunks
Of what had been pines.
palecolored silent hillside had air of desolate
security 1t seemed place where nothing would happen
butterfly emerging with zgzag flight from
e an Of ned h @ e Se ew 9s It
In the heart young thicket stood sloping
granite boulder; and hidden Of boulder
bed of dry grass lay black lamb It's mother
wandering unwontedly settlement lamb
had proved weakling which something to the
sturdy old experience Finding three
old it still pathetic Wing legs
to follow her. she had hidden carefully in the thcket while
down the hillside.
She been absent lamb
less instincts keen heed instructions than
such usually began to grow lonely and
Ions awkward legs braced far apart This enterprise pro-
ducng visible result began each
pantive it would stop and listen with lowered head and
cry loud, n stiffness far
snatching young heritage
by the brook it, but it heard by
other than hers The bright desoate hillside not
empty
little slope large brownish wild
sealthly climbing maple in the Of
finding that might harbOr squirrels His
well almost invisible,
sound slight scratching
drowsy night hawk, asleep of
opmost crotches, heard his He about
kelyookng hole, family wandering
the the impatient lamb He stopped and
suddenly afame When
understood that the foolish youngng
the with and, moving
phantom thru the underground set himself to
stalk with all his craft the of that alluring sound
wildcat alone heard
painve the thicket In the great siences
the wilderness the wild wary
dwell in solitude peopled only by their
there sudden, deadly foe. The chiefs
among in
panther the lynx for insanceseldo each other
accident then rule they to shrink
with certain degree of respect No one but the bull
in rung cares to make his movements too
obtrusve in the soemnly mysterious forest world
by somewhat unusual chance them that not only
the wildcat but also lean black bear, still winter
foolish little voice the lamb beating for its
the which the wildcat hunting, was noselessly
grabbing soft earth under wde-imbed
thought he had neghbors and he wished for
When he caught the lambs bleatng he quickly lifted
with leaves and fresh earth sticking
with his sensitive nostrils
unmistakabe Such trifes as
straghtway forgotten.
seeming cunsiness, the bear moved
thru the tange rock less sound
spectre of wildcat had The
shape went somewhat swiftly than the gray
In this fashion side by SIDE yet each utterly
dreaming the two crafty marauders
And in the heart OF the thice
wopblng,
distended the lamb kept up its freul cs
Had it's strength been at all commensurate with its ndiscre
ton undoubtedly staggering forth into
its mother.
wild cat, having had shorter dis
lance to travel of thicket little in
Of not less than more