Both lay stretched in silence; or if they spoke, it was only in whispers and low mutterings. The sounds were those of nature such as it exists in that wild region. The "snort" of the grizzly bear from the rocky ledge the howling bark of the coyote the "hoo-hoop" of the burrowing owl, and the shrill periodical cries of the bull-bat and goatsucker.
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