I won't have any chance at all if Shadow finds me."

Suddenly Shadow stopped running and sat up to look about with
fierce little eyes, all the time testing the air with his nose.
Jumper's heart sank. He knew that Shadow had caught a faint scent
of some one. Then Shadow began to run back and forth once more,
but more carefully than before. And then he started straight for
where Jumper was crouching! Jumper knew then that Shadow had found his
trail.

Jumper drew a long breath and settled his long hind feet for a great
jump, hoping to so take Whitey the Owl by surprise that he might be
able to get away. And as Jumper did this, he looked over to that
stump where Whitey had been sitting so long. Whitey was just
leaving it on his great silent wings, and his fierce yellow eyes
were fixed in the direction of Shadow the Weasel. He had seen that
moving black spot which was the tip of Shadow's tail.

Jumper didn't have time to jump before Whitey was swooping down
at Shadow. So Juniper just kept still and watched with eyes almost
popping from his head with fear and excitement.

Shadow hadn't seen Whitey until just as Whitey was reaching for him
with his great cruel claws. Now if there is any one who can move
more quickly than Shadow the Weasel I don't know who it is.
Whitey's claws closed on nothing but snow; Shadow had dodged.
Then began a game, Whitey swooping and Shadow dodging, and all the time
they were getting farther and farther from where Jumper was.

The instant it was safe to do so, Jumper took to his long heels and