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Under a full moon, Fox introduces his kits: “I stepped away from the door, and four round and fluid kits rolled past me. Fox moved off to the side, leaving me surrounded by little leaping foxes. Close enough to touch, they were tumbling around me like acrobats while my hands sprung up in surprise.”

A delightful scene.

“Murders of ravenous clouds were gathering at both ends of my valley” — she clearly loves wordplay

“No doubt the same deer that had regurgitated the sticky leaves that morning had returned to eat and spit up more leaves. The deer would eat from the same plant tomorrow, and the next day, and every day until autumn. And every day after spitting the leaves out, they would turn their long jaws this way and that and look at each other in astonishment, as if to ask, Who knew they tasted so bad?”