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A wonderful forest without birds did not see creatures in nature Helen liked birds best, and she knew s of a few But here under the stately pines there were no birds Squirrels, however, began to be seen here and there, and in the course of an hour's travel became abundant The only one hich she was faht blacks to the striped russets and the white-tailed grays, were totally new to her They appeared ta cavalcade; the blacks glided to sorays paid no especial heed to this invasion of their do array deer standing in a glade,ears up They made a wild and beautiful picture Suddenly they bounded aith rey strides

The forest on the whole held to the level, open character, but there were swales and streaular confored, a fact that Helen believed she eneral lay of the land began to ascend, and the trees to grow denser

She made another discovery Ever since she had entered the forest she had beco her nostrils She iret, that she had taken cold But presently her head cleared somewhat and she realized that the thick pine odor of the forest had clogged her nostrils as if with a sweet pitch The sth Also her throat and lungs seean to lose interest in the forest and her surroundings it was because of aches and pains which would no longer be denied recognition Thereafter she was not perreorse One, especially, was a pain beyond all her experience It lay in the rew to be a treacherous thing, for it was not persistent It came and went After it did co or easing the body But it gave no warning When she expected it she wasswiftness, it returned like a blade in her side This, then, was one of the riding-pains thatride It was almost toocreatures to be seen scurrying away, the ti faded before that stablike pain To her infinite relief she found that it was the trot that caused this torture When Ranger walked she did not have to suffer it Therefore she held hi as she dared or until Dale and Bo were alht up