Reedle Откройте в мобильном приложении
Понятно
Понятно
Для того чтобы воспользоваться закладками, необходимо
Войти или зарегистрироваться
Отмена
Для того чтобы воспользоваться озвучкой предложений, необходимо
Войти или зарегистрироваться
Отмена
Озвучка предложений доступна при наличии PRO-доступа
Купить PRO-доступ
Отмена
411
The
famine
broke
.
The
she-wolf
brought
home
meat
.
It
was
strange
meat
,
different
from
any
she
had
ever
brought
before
.
It
was
a
lynx
kitten
,
partly
grown
,
like
the
cub
,
but
not
so
large
.
And
it
was
all
for
him
.
His
mother
had
satisfied
her
hunger
elsewhere
;
though
he
did
not
know
that
it
was
the
rest
of
the
lynx
litter
that
had
gone
to
satisfy
her
.
Nor
did
he
know
the
desperateness
of
her
deed
.
He
knew
only
that
the
velvet-furred
kitten
was
meat
,
and
he
ate
and
waxed
happier
with
every
mouthful
.
412
A
full
stomach
conduces
to
inaction
,
and
the
cub
lay
in
the
cave
,
sleeping
against
his
mother
's
side
.
He
was
aroused
by
her
snarling
.
Never
had
he
heard
her
snarl
so
terribly
.
Possibly
in
her
whole
life
it
was
the
most
terrible
snarl
she
ever
gave
.
There
was
reason
for
it
,
and
none
knew
it
better
than
she
.
A
lynx
's
lair
is
not
despoiled
with
impunity
.
In
the
full
glare
of
the
afternoon
light
,
crouching
in
the
entrance
of
the
cave
,
the
cub
saw
the
lynx-mother
.
The
hair
rippled
up
along
his
back
at
the
sight
.
Here
was
fear
,
and
it
did
not
require
his
instinct
to
tell
him
of
it
.
And
if
sight
alone
were
not
sufficient
,
the
cry
of
rage
the
intruder
gave
,
beginning
with
a
snarl
and
rushing
abruptly
upward
into
a
hoarse
screech
,
was
convincing
enough
in
itself
.
413
The
cub
felt
the
prod
of
the
life
that
was
in
him
,
and
stood
up
and
snarled
valiantly
by
his
mother
's
side
.
But
she
thrust
him
ignominiously
away
and
behind
her
.
Because
of
the
low-roofed
entrance
the
lynx
could
not
leap
in
,
and
when
she
made
a
crawling
rush
of
it
the
she-wolf
sprang
upon
her
and
pinned
her
down
.
The
cub
saw
little
of
the
battle
.
There
was
a
tremendous
snarling
and
spitting
and
screeching
.
The
two
animals
threshed
about
,
the
lynx
ripping
and
tearing
with
her
claws
and
using
her
teeth
as
well
,
while
the
she-wolf
used
her
teeth
alone
.
Отключить рекламу
414
Once
,
the
cub
sprang
in
and
sank
his
teeth
into
the
hind
leg
of
the
lynx
.
He
clung
on
,
growling
savagely
.
Though
he
did
not
know
it
,
by
the
weight
of
his
body
he
clogged
the
action
of
the
leg
and
thereby
saved
his
mother
much
damage
.
A
change
in
the
battle
crushed
him
under
both
their
bodies
and
wrenched
loose
his
hold
.
The
next
moment
the
two
mothers
separated
,
and
,
before
they
rushed
together
again
,
the
lynx
lashed
out
at
the
cub
with
a
huge
fore-paw
that
ripped
his
shoulder
open
to
the
bone
and
sent
him
hurtling
sidewise
against
the
wall
.
Then
was
added
to
the
uproar
the
cub
's
shrill
yelp
of
pain
and
fright
.
But
the
fight
lasted
so
long
that
he
had
time
to
cry
himself
out
and
to
experience
a
second
burst
of
courage
;
and
the
end
of
the
battle
found
him
again
clinging
to
a
hind-leg
and
furiously
growling
between
his
teeth
.
415
The
lynx
was
dead
.
But
the
she-wolf
was
very
weak
and
sick
.
At
first
she
caressed
the
cub
and
licked
his
wounded
shoulder
;
but
the
blood
she
had
lost
had
taken
with
it
her
strength
,
and
for
all
of
a
day
and
a
night
she
lay
by
her
dead
foe
's
side
,
without
movement
,
scarcely
breathing
.
For
a
week
she
never
left
the
cave
,
except
for
water
,
and
then
her
movements
were
slow
and
painful
.
At
the
end
of
that
time
the
lynx
was
devoured
,
while
the
she-wolf
's
wounds
had
healed
sufficiently
to
permit
her
to
take
the
meat-trail
again
.
416
The
cub
's
shoulder
was
stiff
and
sore
,
and
for
some
time
he
limped
from
the
terrible
slash
he
had
received
.
But
the
world
now
seemed
changed
.
He
went
about
in
it
with
greater
confidence
,
with
a
feeling
of
prowess
that
had
not
been
his
in
the
days
before
the
battle
with
the
lynx
.
He
had
looked
upon
life
in
a
more
ferocious
aspect
;
he
had
fought
;
he
had
buried
his
teeth
in
the
flesh
of
a
foe
;
and
he
had
survived
.
And
because
of
all
this
,
he
carried
himself
more
boldly
,
with
a
touch
of
defiance
that
was
new
in
him
.
He
was
no
longer
afraid
of
minor
things
,
and
much
of
his
timidity
had
vanished
,
though
the
unknown
never
ceased
to
press
upon
him
with
its
mysteries
and
terrors
,
intangible
and
ever-menacing
.
417
He
began
to
accompany
his
mother
on
the
meat-trail
,
and
he
saw
much
of
the
killing
of
meat
and
began
to
play
his
part
in
it
.
And
in
his
own
dim
way
he
learned
the
law
of
meat
.
There
were
two
kinds
of
life
--
his
own
kind
and
the
other
kind
.
His
own
kind
included
his
mother
and
himself
.
The
other
kind
included
all
live
things
that
moved
.
But
the
other
kind
was
divided
.
One
portion
was
what
his
own
kind
killed
and
ate
.
This
portion
was
composed
of
the
non-killers
and
the
small
killers
.
The
other
portion
killed
and
ate
his
own
kind
,
or
was
killed
and
eaten
by
his
own
kind
.
And
out
of
this
classification
arose
the
law
.
The
aim
of
life
was
meat
.
Life
itself
was
meat
.
Life
lived
on
life
.
There
were
the
eaters
and
the
eaten
.
The
law
was
:
EAT
OR
BE
EATEN
.
He
did
not
formulate
the
law
in
clear
,
set
terms
and
moralise
about
it
.
He
did
not
even
think
the
law
;
he
merely
lived
the
law
without
thinking
about
it
at
all
.
Отключить рекламу
418
He
saw
the
law
operating
around
him
on
every
side
.
He
had
eaten
the
ptarmigan
chicks
.
The
hawk
had
eaten
the
ptarmigan-mother
.
The
hawk
would
also
have
eaten
him
.
Later
,
when
he
had
grown
more
formidable
,
he
wanted
to
eat
the
hawk
.
He
had
eaten
the
lynx
kitten
.
419
The
lynx-mother
would
have
eaten
him
had
she
not
herself
been
killed
and
eaten
.
And
so
it
went
.
The
law
was
being
lived
about
him
by
all
live
things
,
and
he
himself
was
part
and
parcel
of
the
law
.
He
was
a
killer
.
His
only
food
was
meat
,
live
meat
,
that
ran
away
swiftly
before
him
,
or
flew
into
the
air
,
or
climbed
trees
,
or
hid
in
the
ground
,
or
faced
him
and
fought
with
him
,
or
turned
the
tables
and
ran
after
him
.
420
Had
the
cub
thought
in
man-fashion
,
he
might
have
epitomised
life
as
a
voracious
appetite
and
the
world
as
a
place
wherein
ranged
a
multitude
of
appetites
,
pursuing
and
being
pursued
,
hunting
and
being
hunted
,
eating
and
being
eaten
,
all
in
blindness
and
confusion
,
with
violence
and
disorder
,
a
chaos
of
gluttony
and
slaughter
,
ruled
over
by
chance
,
merciless
,
planless
,
endless
.