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He dares not harm the moose-calf hard by the trails of the mountain. He becomes friendly, and the fool moose-calf tells the wolf where he is bound. The wolf offers to accompany him, and the moose-calf is glad here is a friend one who is wiser than the moose-kind, for he fears not to venture into the country of no trails. "Between the mountain and the plain stands a tree. This tree the wolf hates.
He will charge the tree! He does not know that the tree has been growing for many years, and has become deeply rooted immovable. The wolf looks on and smiles. If the moose-calf butts the tree down, the wolf will get the squirrels and the calf. If the calf does not, the wolf will get the calf." MacNair ceased speaking and turned abruptly toward the river. "My!" Chloe Elliston exclaimed.
Maybe the fool moose-calf will butt its brains out against the trunk of the tree. That would be no fault of the tree. The tree was there first, and was minding its own business. Maybe the calf will butt and get hurt, and scamper for home. Maybe it will succeed in eluding the fangs of the wolf, and reach its mountain in safety. In such case it will have learned something.
"Suppose, however, that this particular tree is rotten rotten to the heart? That the very roots that hold it in place are rotten? And that the moose-calf butts 'til he butts it down what then?" There was a gleam of admiration in MacNair's eyes as he answered: "If the tree is rotten it will fall. But it will fall to the mighty push o' the winds o' God and not to the puny butt of a moose-calf!"
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