Chapter 14: Perfect Female Summary

Dellarobia wakes up the next day shocked to find the world covered in deep drifts of snow, after the temperature had risen to fifty degrees only a few days before. The kids are excited for a snow day but Dellarobia knows what this probably means for the monarchs. As she gazes at the white world, she notices one of the ewes behaving strangely in the field above the house. Thinking it might be in labor, she goes out to investigate and is shocked when the ewe drops a filmed-over little lamb and moves away from it. Calling to Cub for assistance, she does everything she can think to get the unmoving lamb to breathe, wiping it clean, holding it close to her body for warmth, breathing into its nose. She finally spins it around by the back legs just...