Cinnabar, the One O'Clock Fox by Henry Marguerite

Author:Henry, Marguerite [Henry, Marguerite]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Aladdin
Published: 2014-07-21T16:00:00+00:00

It was midafternoon now and the sun was spilling its gold slantwise across the earth. It fired the water into a ribbon of gold, and it made tiny rainbows of the splashing spray against the larger rocks. The shimmering stream, so near and yet so far, dazzled Cinnabar, winking up at him like something alive. “Come to me!” it laughed. “Come to me!”

Glancing back, Cinnabar was shocked to see how the hounds had gained. They were running close packed, their tongues slavering, their voices shrill. He had to reach the creek at once.

Ahead, there it was, snaking along with the shine of gold on its back and the voice of it still laughing up at him. “Come to me! Come to me!”

Frantically he thrashed through the willows, skidded down the slippery bank, and now the cold water was washing up his legs. He couldn’t touch bottom! The current swirled him about and lined him downstream. With his nose up and his forepaws paddling like small water wheels, he was rapidly leaving the hunt behind. He looked around and saw that the hounds had stopped at the creek’s edge. They were lapping the cold water greedily.

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