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world, let's go ahead and tuck you in and get you down to sleep. We continue with Chapter 5. The sheep ran huddling together

against the hurdles, blowing out thin nostrils and stamping with delicate four feet. Their

heads thrown back and a light steam rising from the crowded sheep pen into the frosty air,

as the two animals hastened by in high spirits with much chatter and laughter.

They were returning across country after a long day's outing with Otter, hunting and exploring

on the wide uplands, where certain streams tributary to their own river had their first

small beginnings. The shades of the short winter day were closing in on them, and they had still some distance to go.

Plodding at random across the plow, they had heard the sheep and had made for them, and now,

leading from the sheep pen, they found a beaten track that made walking a lighter business, and responded to that

small inquiring something which all animals carry inside them, saying unmistakably, yes, quite

right, this leads home.

It looks as if we were coming to a village, said the mole, somewhat dubiously, slackening his pace.

The track that had in time become a path and had developed into a lane,

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