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Updated: June 25, 2025
Then his quarrelsome cousins had gone to bed, and there was no one to drive him away when he found a feast of good things. "But even at night there was plenty of danger. There was Mr. Owl to be watched out for, and other night prowlers. In fact, little Mr. Squirrel didn't feel safe on the ground a minute, and so he kept to the trees as much as possible.
But though they imagined several times they heard the purr of one of the prowlers, they reached the plateau without adventure. The ponies were huddled together, tails to the rocks, and were sniffing the air in obvious uneasiness. "Steady, boys, steady," called Horace soothingly. And setting down his meat, he patted each reassuringly.
Loathsome, bareheaded harlots mingled with bands of prowlers or ran through the crowd, howling obscene refrains. Bandits stood in groups chatting and quarrelling about the more or less glorious manner in which certain famous /guillotines/ had died.
But indeed he got in motion to investigate without stopping to debate an excuse for so doing, and several seconds before he heard the woman's cries. Of these the first sounded, shrill with alarm, as Duchemin turned the corner where the prowlers had gone from sight.
The rest of the warriors consulted together, near at hand, all those who had been out having returned to report that no signs of any other prowlers near the camp were to be found. In this state of things, the old woman, whose name was Shebear, in plain English, approached Deerslayer, with her fists clenched and her eyes flashing fire.
Our news, therefore, is largely set in motion by telegraphic operators, by agents trained to regard only the accidental, the startling, the abnormal, as news; it is picked up by sharp prowlers about town, whose pay depends upon finding something, who are looking for something spicy and sensational, or which may be dressed up and exaggerated to satisfy an appetite for novelty and high flavor, and who regard casualties as the chief news.
They had a battery in position, which belched incessantly, and over the breastworks their musketry made one unbroken roll, while against Sheridan's prowlers on their left, by skirmish and sortie, they stuck to their sinking fortunes, so as to win unwilling applause from mouths of wisest censure. It was just at the coming up of the infantry that Sheridan's little band was pushed the hardest.
"danger, follow!" and then the crash of brush as she rushed away followed by the second fawn, whom she must save, though she abandoned the heedless one to prowlers of the night. It was clear enough what had happened. The cries of the wilderness all have their meaning, if one but knows how to interpret them.
The warm, thawing winds had ceased to blow, the eaves had ceased their droppings and were beautifully fringed with icicles. The snow had become crusted over, but so slightly, indeed, that the lightest footfall would crush the treacherous coating, and the cracking of the icy fragments betray the presence of prowlers.
Certain woods at night are alive with flying squirrels which, except for some accident, we never see by day. Then there are the night prowlers skunks, foxes, coons, minks, and owls yes, and mice. The wild mice we rarely see. The little shrew mole, which I know is active at night, I have never seen but once.
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