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Upon these paths the moose-calf tries his wobbly legs, and one day finds himself gazing out upon a plain where grass is.

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The grass covers a quagmire, but of quagmires the moose-calf knows nothing, having been born upon a mountain.

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A wolf, skulking through the scrub at the foot of the mountain, encounters, by chance, the moose-calf.

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You are like a young moose-calf, who, because he happens to be born into the world, thinks the world was made for him to be born into.

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Maybe the fool moose-calf will butt its brains out against the trunk of the tree.

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He becomes friendly, and the fool moose-calf tells the wolf where he is bound.

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The wolf offers to accompany him, and the moose-calf is glad -- here is a friend -- one who is wiser than the moose-kind, for he fears not to venture into the country of no trails.

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He dares not harm the moose-calf hard by the trails of the mountain.

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If the moose-calf butts the tree down, the wolf will get the squirrels -- and the calf.

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The moose-calf -- the poor fool moose-calf -- comes to this tree, and, finding no paths curving around its base, becomes enraged because the tree does not step aside and yield the right of way.

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