W. H. D. Rouse
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at length came the plans for the opening of the doors of the temporary trap to introduce the squirrels to their new forest home where the lake lapsed the shore several row-boats were drawn up in line and it was but the work of a moment to embark for all the interested members of the little group could enter readily into the child's feelings
the morning was one of the gems of june with crystal sky and lake as the boats sped out towards the further shore the wise little creatures in the box crowded further back massed themselves in a bunch their feet towards the opening of the box their pointed noses quivering with excitement
their little sharp bead-like eyes alert but less full of fear than at first for already they had grown familiar with a petting word from the little trapper and friend and were fast growing trustful of their human kind
now the problem was to get them to cross the small channel of deep water which lay between them and the shore a rustic bridge was made by means of a wide board and then the doors were opened such a patter of little twinkling feet as they ran one after another low geared for the land
while the party sailed back or remained on the lake to enjoy the delights of rod and line the feast of the flowers on the banks and the songs of numberless birds all part of the glorious summer time
chapter three a welcome guest some weeks previous to this while the campers still thought they had the whole summer before them a little white kitten with gold spots had come seemingly from nowhere and had sought admission not to edwy's camp but to his uncle's across the lake
his uncle's wife was the dearest the most teasable aunt in the world she was known sometimes as aida from a pet name one of them had given her they had never called her aunt but always some nice pet name and always pretended they didn't care a flip for her but she knew better for wasn't she their own mother's sister who had also a pet name of her own
and were they not both daughters of this great chum of theirs who as their father had told them was entirely their own contemporary and equal but at the same time they mustn't tease her or treat her as if they were playing football and mustn't touch her pretty white dress with their candy fingers
edway was glad that the kitten had come to visit them he was afraid that the winter would be hard on the poor thing everybody said it could take care of itself but why couldn't it take care of itself now it came every morning to ask them for food and would give its high-toned purr of satisfaction when they had fed it
much as edway liked it he was glad that it had not come to his father's camp for they had some little rabbits they had brought them when old enough from their old home and had let them run wild through the woods and underbrush near the woods and the lake
but would you believe it willard he said to his brother they come back to our camp just as soon as they hear my voice shouting to them half a mile away and then they begin to show up out of the underbrush
it was always jolly at his aunt's camp for in his own camp he feared the rabbits and the kitten might not agree and he and willard were quite as much at home in the one place as the other the only time when the kitten had visited their camp on the hill was once when they had all been away a few days and when both camps were empty for that length of time
on coming back the very first thing they saw in front of edwy's father's camp was the little white kitten sitting on the doorstep crying a glad welcome to them arching its back and reaching up for them to pet it very soon edwy took the megaphone from its corner and called over the lake hello the sound of aida's voice came floating back
yes i can hear you we all thought our little zephyr was lost but she is here all safe and sound and she's had a bowl of milk willard and i are going to row the boat over the lake and bring her back to your house aida for that is her real home
on reaching the other shore aida and moma were glad to welcome the boys with their pet for they had all feared that she was lost she had found her way to the other house along a wood road they thought all the way if she had gone along the borders of the lake it would have been much nearer but it was swampy that way so she must have taken the high road and had made friends with the tame rabbits not hurting any of them
the boys were well pleased with the result of their afternoon's visit for zephyr seemed so glad to get home that she went through all her little antics for them hiding under the woodpile then leaping out to surprise them and glancing up in their faces almost as if she were laughing trying races with them along the wooded shore
after the boys had partaken of the nice little lunch that aida had planned for them some cake and berries crimson raspberries that had grown in the field by the roadside it was time to take the boat for their homeward trip zephyr followed them to the bank and looked after them as long as there was light enough to see the boat aida also watching them off and their dear mother outlined against the further shore waiting their arrival
chapter four zephyr second it was edway himself who had named the cat zephyr second for one summer they had a cat visitor that he named zephyr but she had gone back to her home among the mountains and they had never seen her again but for this little kitten that had come to them so white so pretty and engaging a real snowflake in color so tiny and playful zephyr seemed such an appropriate name
he could not call it zephyr alone for that would have seemed like forgetting the former one who was not so beautiful as this one and had never leaped higher than one's head like this one but zephyr second or zephyr two would be quite the thing and keep the former one in memory
he was glad that this one had come to his aunt aida's for they would be a month longer in camp and then zephyr's winter would not seem so long he seemed more and more appreciative of all the graceful pranks of his pet when she ran like a wild happy thing leaping up as high as the fence posts after butterflies in the sunshine
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