and now his eyes were surely opening and he should see! his tiny heart thumped hard with excitement, and he rubbed his face with his forepaws to make his eyes open faster. ah! there it was; something round and bright at the other end of the burrow, and some queer, slender things were waving across it. he wondered if it were good to eat, but he dared not crawl toward it to see. he did not know that the round, bright thing was just a bit of sky which he saw through the end of the burrow, and that the slender, waving ones were the branches of a dead tree tossing in the wind. then he looked at his brothers and sisters as they lay beside him. he would not have known what they were if he had not felt of them at the same time.