At lengtains becomes monotonous; y, to provoke araveller sees t eye of tain line, no trees grow. She sky.

    A girl from a village on t o marry a man ober, torm. ter ed for a message but none arrived. After torm passed, t up to see for aking h her because she was afraid.

    From a long ude yas ude engulfed traces of  left t except some mess t s race of t a gna in a boot.

    t and took it  e. tilated t.

    inter came s, okes ter and sed and it  Cmas, time passed. More children came.

    grandson, Peter, reaco go up tain o let ts feed on ter sat in t, plaiting tras, until aug to fear advancing silently along tcrop of rock. t one.

    If t been t s, of e, giving tly look, as if t of dissolving at tly, plumey tails; te, inquisitive masks.

    ter sa t s head.

    t of ted   en and certainly been beaten to t ts ting and he wolves away.

    oo angry to listen to er said. er round t  at table, so a pot.

    quot;ttle girl ; said Peter.  tle girl? Per;A little girl about my age, from ; he said.

    pod out of t up.

    quot;I satle girl ; he said.

    ipped er into t, got up from table and  of peas on t time, t nig next morning, very early, sook tain.

    quot;tell your fat you told me.quot;

    t to look at tracks. On a bit of dampis, not like t of a dogs pad, muc of a cprint, yet Peter  until .

    quot;Suck up in t all  on t,  s oes, see. . . like t.quot;

    barefoot in summer, like all ted t in t, to s kind of mark oo, always ran on all fours.

    quot;No use for a  ands to reason.quot;

    At last  of Peters poion, giving t. It was a clever child.

    to a perfect C. S somebody caug tigo tc of noers fated it to bits gun. t taken  loose. t thers hand.

    tc until tied s and ankles toget limp. S scream or s, s seem to be able to, stural sounds in t, and, t seem to knoer trickled out of the corners of her eyes.

    bro  uck  y you could not see  migank. S all uck out. tato-fed boy hough she was a year or so older.

    Solemn y, rotted beumped alongside ten ly poked at  buttock  of curiosity, to see   so muccoucruggle; srussed on tended to be dead.

    Grannys er, ts. As soon as it caugabby mouser   to t above. Soup smoked on table   supper-time but still quite lig comes late on tain.

    quot;Untie ; said ther.

    first but t be denied, so  t t s, it  of t of to t but Granny and Peter boto to s t, so s get out.

    trapped one knocked round t table. Crasinkle -- tinkle -- te s s t, and tiffened legs in a il ttled on everyt made everytrange.  frenzy over, sted a moment, questing o make little rusies, now ossing her bewildered head.

    Soes, yet it  quite like croucurally to  pact y too, rong tain, aut t indeed, s back on  tolerable, ts of distress. All you could see of es, we of snow.

    Several times, ly involuntarily. tc even   to ours, trange, unguessable, wicked feeding, s of a wolf.

    Oh, horror!

    So tents put out t soup scalded ting on ers,  paeously from its  before her, she howled, in high, sobbing arcs.

    Even tracted o love ter, was frighe girl howl.

    Peters  gave a  ion of falling;  conscious of  take  of t ly visible to  t  t  very dark; a  top of t it  indoors yet timacy clearly, as if by its oe fascination upon him.