Did You Hear It?

Did you hear the sniffing in the night -- snuffling and pawing at the corner of the tent? Did you hear it, for I did not though I raised my head when I heard you stir and whisper that something was out there?

Out of the woods, walking noiselessly amid last year's fallen leaves and this year's ferns covering the forest floor, it must have come, but I did not hear what you heard in the night, and I rolled back over and went to sleep.

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Honeymooning at Emerson Pond, MI
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