CHAPTER X: The White Watchers

Much may be gained by sitting still
If you but have the strength of will.
- Whitefoot.

Jumper the Hare crouched at the foot of a tree in the Green Forest,
and a little way from him on a stump sat Whitey the Snowy Owl.
Had you been there to see them, both would have appeared as white as
the snow around them unless you had looked very closely. Then you might
have seen two narrow black lines back of Jumper's head. They were
the tips of his ears, for these remain black. And near the upper
part of the white mound which was Whitey you might have seen two
round yellow spots, his eyes.

There they were for all the world like two little heaps of snow.
Jumper didn't move so much as a hair. Whitey didn't move so much as
a feather. Both were waiting and watching. Jumper didn't move
because he knew that Whitey was there. Whitey didn't move because
he didn't want any one to know he was there, and didn't know that
Jumper was there. Jumper was sitting still because he was afraid.
Whitey was sitting still because he was hungry.

So there they sat, each in plain sight of the other but only one
seeing the other. This was because Juniper had been fortunate
enough to see Whitey alight on that stump. Jumper had been sitting
still when Whitey arrived, and so those fierce yellow eyes had not