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After
a
few
weeks
,
when
Freckles
learned
that
he
was
still
living
,
that
he
had
a
home
,
and
the
very
first
money
he
ever
had
possessed
was
safe
in
his
pockets
,
he
began
to
grow
proud
.
He
yet
side
-
stepped
,
dodged
,
and
hurried
to
avoid
being
late
again
,
but
he
was
gradually
developing
the
fearlessness
that
men
ever
acquire
of
dangers
to
which
they
are
hourly
accustomed
.
His
heart
seemed
to
be
leaping
when
his
first
rattler
disputed
the
trail
with
him
,
but
he
mustered
courage
to
attack
it
with
his
club
.
After
its
head
had
been
crushed
,
he
mastered
an
Irishman
’
s
inborn
repugnance
for
snakes
sufficiently
to
cut
off
its
rattles
to
show
Duncan
.
With
this
victory
,
his
greatest
fear
of
them
was
gone
.
Then
he
began
to
realize
that
with
the
abundance
of
food
in
the
swamp
,
flesh
-
hunters
would
not
come
on
the
trail
and
attack
him
,
and
he
had
his
revolver
for
defence
if
they
did
.
He
soon
learned
to
laugh
at
the
big
,
floppy
birds
that
made
horrible
noises
.
One
day
,
watching
behind
a
tree
,
he
saw
a
crane
solemnly
performing
a
few
measures
of
a
belated
nuptial
song
-
and
-
dance
with
his
mate
.
Realizing
that
it
was
intended
in
tenderness
,
no
matter
how
it
appeared
,
the
lonely
,
starved
heart
of
the
boy
sympathized
with
them
.
Before
the
first
month
passed
,
he
was
fairly
easy
about
his
job
;
by
the
next
he
rather
liked
it
.
Nature
can
be
trusted
to
work
her
own
miracle
in
the
heart
of
any
man
whose
daily
task
keeps
him
alone
among
her
sights
,
sounds
,
and
silences
.
When
day
after
day
the
only
thing
that
relieved
his
utter
loneliness
was
the
companionship
of
the
birds
and
beasts
of
the
swamp
,
it
was
the
most
natural
thing
in
the
world
that
Freckles
should
turn
to
them
for
friendship
.
He
began
by
instinctively
protecting
the
weak
and
helpless
.
He
was
astonished
at
the
quickness
with
which
they
became
accustomed
to
him
and
the
disregard
they
showed
for
his
movements
,
when
they
learned
that
he
was
not
a
hunter
,
while
the
club
he
carried
was
used
more
frequently
for
their
benefit
than
his
own
.
He
scarcely
could
believe
what
he
saw
.
From
the
effort
to
protect
the
birds
and
animals
,
it
was
only
a
short
step
to
the
possessive
feeling
,
and
with
that
sprang
the
impulse
to
caress
and
provide
.
Through
fall
,
when
brooding
was
finished
and
the
upland
birds
sought
the
swamp
in
swarms
to
feast
on
its
seeds
and
berries
,
Freckles
was
content
with
watching
them
and
speculating
about
them
.
Outside
of
half
a
dozen
of
the
very
commonest
they
were
strangers
to
him
.
The
likeness
of
their
actions
to
humanity
was
an
hourly
surprise
.
When
black
frost
began
stripping
the
Limberlost
,
cutting
the
ferns
,
shearing
the
vines
from
the
trees
,
mowing
the
succulent
green
things
of
the
swale
,
and
setting
the
leaves
swirling
down
,
he
watched
the
departing
troops
of
his
friends
with
dismay
.
He
began
to
realize
that
he
would
be
left
alone
.
He
made
especial
efforts
toward
friendliness
with
the
hope
that
he
could
induce
some
of
them
to
stay
.
It
was
then
that
he
conceived
the
idea
of
carrying
food
to
the
birds
;
for
he
saw
that
they
were
leaving
for
lack
of
it
;
but
he
could
not
stop
them
.
Day
after
day
,
flocks
gathered
and
departed
:
by
the
time
the
first
snow
whitened
his
trail
around
the
Limberlost
,
there
were
left
only
the
little
black
-
and
-
white
juncos
,
the
sapsuckers
,
yellow
-
hammers
,
a
few
patriarchs
among
the
flaming
cardinals
,
the
blue
jays
,
the
crows
,
and
the
quail
.
Then
Freckles
began
his
wizard
work
.
He
cleared
a
space
of
swale
,
and
twice
a
day
he
spread
a
birds
’
banquet
.
By
the
middle
of
December
the
strong
winds
of
winter
had
beaten
most
of
the
seed
from
the
grass
and
bushes
.
The
snow
fell
,
covering
the
swamp
,
and
food
was
very
scarce
and
difficult
to
find
.
The
birds
scarcely
waited
until
Freckles
’
back
was
turned
to
attack
his
provisions
.
In
a
few
weeks
they
flew
toward
the
clearing
to
meet
him
.
During
the
bitter
weather
of
January
they
came
halfway
to
the
cabin
every
morning
,
and
fluttered
around
him
as
doves
all
the
way
to
the
feeding
-
ground
.
Before
February
they
were
so
accustomed
to
him
,
and
so
hunger
-
driven
,
that
they
would
perch
on
his
head
and
shoulders
,
and
the
saucy
jays
would
try
to
pry
into
his
pockets
.
Then
Freckles
added
to
wheat
and
crumbs
,
every
scrap
of
refuse
food
he
could
find
at
the
cabin
.
He
carried
to
his
pets
the
parings
of
apples
,
turnips
,
potatoes
,
stray
cabbage
-
leaves
,
and
carrots
,
and
tied
to
the
bushes
meat
-
bones
having
scraps
of
fat
and
gristle
.
One
morning
,
coming
to
his
feeding
-
ground
unusually
early
,
he
found
a
gorgeous
cardinal
and
a
rabbit
side
by
side
sociably
nibbling
a
cabbage
-
leaf
,
and
that
instantly
gave
to
him
the
idea
of
cracking
nuts
,
from
the
store
he
had
gathered
for
Duncan
’
s
children
,
for
the
squirrels
,
in
the
effort
to
add
them
to
his
family
.
