The Golden FootprintsA young Japanese boy is torn between freeing a little fox so that it can be reunited with its parents and listening to the admonition of his own parents to whom a fox is a precious creature whose fur can be sold, and whose meat can be eaten. |
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animal baby fox barking barrels bean-paste BERKELEY LIBRARIES beside big foxes bushes cave chain chicken crack darkness deep denly dirt floor disappeared Early every morning entrance father and mother father fox feast fence fireplace fox appeared fox began fox stepped back fox's foxes run gether gnaw Golden Footprints grown fox HATOJU MUKU hiding its face Horse's Back hunter icicles inside jump kaine kitchen Kuma Kuma's LIBRARY UNIVERSITY looking lowlands main house mother fox mountain meadow mountain winds mountainside moved oak grove p-phew parent foxes pheasant piled REC'D returned from hunting ridge rock saw the parent seemed shadow appeared shed Shota Shotaro thought Shotaro's family Shotaro's father Shotaro's hand Shotaro's house stared steep slope stood straight suddenly sunshine supper TARO YASHIMA tell his parents tracks trying to escape UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA valley white snow winter wooden box wooden pole worms yams