pero's

Updated: May 16, 2025

How long she would have gone on with this can never be known, but one of the babies, nearly suffocated with the earth, set up a little, whimpering cry, and Pero's motherly heart responded at once. She knew it was a cry of pain of distress and so she suddenly gave up the burrowing and turned back to her little one.

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