_NOTE TO THE READER_

_These Stories, selected from those published in "Wild Animals I Have
Known," are true histories of the animals described, and are intended to
show how their lives are lived.

Though the lower animals have no language in the full sense as we
understand it, they have a system of sounds, signs, touches, tastes, and
smells that answers the purpose of language, and I merely translate
this, when necessary, into English._

_ERNEST SETON-THOMPSON

144 Fifth Avenue, New York
May 7, 1899_




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LOBO AND BLANCA . . . . . . 18
REDRUFF SAVING RUNTIE . . . 60
MAMMY! MAMMY! . . . . . . . 78
THEY TUSSLED AND FOUGHT . . 126