e; it  a live snake, only an empty skin.  up and examined it carefully: a beautiful gray and brotern ran do; it ened, t iff, narroo to a er, on ic leaves, brancing t—a stag per tell. For a long time ood panting . terrified, ened in tion taken, ill listening  long after everyt again.

    find  of t; o spend t t a bed of moss, trying to imagine  , if o stay in it forever. t  misfortune. Living on berries er all not impossible, nor o build a  for ually, pero make a fire. But living alone forever and ever, among tly sleeping tree trunks,  ran a speak—t  to see people, not to say good morning and good nigo anyone; no more faces and eyes to look into; no more girls and o look at, no more kisses; never again to play t game of lips and legs, t e, , ry to become an animal, a bear or a stag, even if it meant forsaking tion of o be a bear and love a s be bad,  least be mucter to keep ones reason and language and all t, and vegetate alone, sad and unloved.

    Before falling asleep in ened to tic nig, y and fear. to live omed to te  along o to pine and fir. o live  for daybreak arve .

    t  explain, suffered infinite anguis and lay time, deeply disturbed.  yesterday and today o sleep  saying  up, knelt beside erday and today. Soon he was asleep again.

    In t t ten o drusted o tinued to aking ion from t one point o a completely smootretc— very traiger o remind er co  really only two days ago?

    It took ion: cultivated land, strips of field s, meadopatrodden; ions of it