![]() You should go to the Circle of Truth-we’ll show you the way.” You won’t tell anyone you’ve seen us, will you? Good. “We know what it’s like to be forced from our home-the duke’s hunters chased us from our den in the valley a year ago. “Goodbye,” the brother whispered.īut the wolves sat on their haunches. Suddenly five wolves bounded from the shadows. So they too got up and tiptoed away, saying, “We can work on some farm, and Mama and Papa can stay with our baby.”Īfter hours in the moonlit forest, they came to a meadow. The brother and sister couldn’t sleep either. ![]() The thought gave her hope, so she hurried back to the cottage and into bed. “Could a new home be waiting for us?” she wondered. When she stepped back she was in the freezing woods again. ![]() When she stepped inside the stones, she and her family were suddenly in a new house, its pine-boards still smelling sweet. “You are so kind, Eagle,” said the mother. But please tell no one where my nest is.” Go to the Circle of Truth-this is the path. “I heard about your trouble, and I know what it is to make a nest for my chicks. When she looked up, a huge eagle stood in the nest. Just then she heard flapping and an eagle’s cry, and she cowered in fear. Beside her was a big nest of sticks, with two eagle chicks in it. Sometime later the mother woke and crept out too, thinking, “I’ll look for the Magic Circle.”Īfter a time, the path she was following came to the top of a cliff. So he returned to the cottage and slipped back into bed. “The Circle is saying we must stay together!” he cried. When he stepped back out, he found himself in the cold woods again. When he stepped into it, he was suddenly back in the cottage, with a fire on the hearth and his smiling family around him. So they parted and the father went to the circle. When you’re inside it, you see things that are true-even if they haven’t happened yet.” “What is the Circle, Bear? Who made it? How does it work?” It’s in that grove.” She pointed with a huge paw. “Perhaps you should go to the Circle of Truth. “Well, God bless us both,” said the bear. “I heard about your landlady,” said the bear quietly, “and I too am worried about my children. Then he felt a wet nose against his hand. Suddenly a great shaggy bear stood before him, roaring till the trees shook. Soon he was cold to the bone and lost besides. “People say there’s a magic circle of stones in the forest,” he told himself. Late that night after everyone went to bed, the father sneaked off. “Yes,” said the landlady, “but your new baby makes five of you. “But we pay our rent!” the father protested. One day their landlady came and said, “There are too many people here!” Once a poor family lived in a cottage near a forest.
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