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At the little creature squealed lustily as he ran along the gallery to
seek solace from his mother's companionship in the central chamber
beyond. Yet even there he was not allowed to remain in peace. Maddened
by the scent of a few drops of blood coming from his wound, the adult
voles chased him from the burrow, and drove him out into the field.
Luckily for him the brown owl had meanwhile flown away with another
young vole in her claws. Kweek remained in safety under the hawthorns
till the grey dawn flushed the south-east sky; then, his injured tail
having ceased to bleed, he ventured without fear among his kindred as
they lay huddled asleep in the recesses of their underground abode. The
year drew to its close, the weather became colder, and an irresistible
desire for long-continued rest took possession of Kweek. His appetite
was more easily satisfied than hitherto; hour after hour, by night as
well as by day, he drowsed in the snug corner where lay the remains of
the nest in which he had been born. Winter, weary and monotonous to most
of the wildlings of the field, passed quickly over his head.
Scarce-broken sleep and forgetfulness, when skies are grey and tempests
rage--such are Nature's gifts to the snake, the bee, and the flower, as
well as to the squirrel in the wood and the vole in the burrow beneath
the moss. Occasionally, it is true, when at noon the sun was bright and
spring seemed to have come to the Valley of Olwen, the snake would stir
in his retreat beneath the leaves, the bee would crawl to and fro in her
hidden nest, the flower would feel the stir of rising sap, the squirrel
would venture forth to stretch cramped limbs by a visit to some
particular storehouse--the existence of which, as one among many filled
with nuts and acorns, he happened to remember--and the vole would creep
to the entrance of his burrow, and sit in the welcome warmth till the
sun declined and hunger sent him to his granary for a hearty meal. These
brief,
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