The Siege of White Deer Park

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He began to call as he neared Fox and Vixen’s earth.
‘News! News! Sensational news!’ He made such a noise, and the noise was so unexpected from the normally dignified heron, that animals and birds came out of their burrows and holes and boughs, or stopped what they were doing, to look up at him. He hastened to land.
Fox and Vixen were all agog and an indignant and sleepy Tawny Owl flew to a nearby perch to hear what all the unwarranted (in his opinion) commotion was about.
‘The Beast is seen!’
...Whistler cried by way of a preliminary. ‘Drinking, as boldly and openly as you like, from the stream.’ More animals and birds were gathering to listen. There was a chorus of demands to know what it was like, in voices of many varied pitches and registers. The heron waited for the hubbub to die down. He was familiar with the ginger cat belonging to the Warden and so this was the obvious comparison to make.
‘It was like,’ he told them, and at once there was a hushed silence, ‘a much larger version of the cat our Badger got to know so well.’ Tawny Owl blinked his great eyes in disbelief.
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