LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
He struggled frantically to drag himself up again upon the ledge [Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
The black boar had wandered so far into the wilderness that he was safe from pursuit [10]
He only knew his lines were close ahead, and he must reach them [50]
Black and huge against the pallid radiance towered a moose bull [56]
The mother egret flapped blindly upon the top of the water [84]
"This ain't no menagerie we've got here, Tom. It's a Noah's Ark, that's what it be!" [102]
He launched himself into the battle [132]
Leaping upwards and striking downwards with his destroying heels [160]