| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 3 | 739 | "It was not on your scent," I said. |
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| 3 | 736 | I hobbled on, in the moonlight. |
| 3 | 737 | View more quotes about once">Once I stopped, in terror, frozen, for I noted the sinuous passage of a prairie sleen. |
| 3 | 738 | It passed within a dozen yards of me, rapidly, its snout to the ground". |
| 3 | 739 | "It was not on your scent," I said. |
| 3 | 740 | Sleen can be terribly dangerous to humans, but the human is not its familiar prey. |
| 3 | 741 | The sleen, in the wild a burrowing, largely nocturnal animal, is a tenacious, obsessive, single-minded hunter, a supreme tracker. |
| 3 | 742 | On one scent it will often pass by, even ignore, more ample or superior prey. |