Little Tupper's LakeA Spike BuckA Thunder Storm in the ForestThe Howl of the Wolf CHAPTER XVIII.

Here is the white wolf's story, learned partly from much watching and following his tracks alone, but more from Noel the Indian hunter, in endless tramps over the hills and caribou marshes and in long quiet talks in the firelight beside the salmon rivers.

Strange neighbors these, the grim, savage mother wolf of the mountains, hiding her young in dens of the rocks, and the wary, magnificent wanderer of the broad caribou barrens; but they understood each other, and neither wolf nor caribou had any fear or hostile intent one for the other.

Whether or not the father wolf ever knew where his cubs were hidden only he himself could tell.

Again the old she-wolf approached cautiously, and again the caribou plunged at her and followed her lame retreat with headlong fury.

An electric shock seemed suddenly to touch the huge he-wolf.

Flocks of grouse and ptarmigan came out of the thick coverts, in which they had been hiding all summer, and began to pluck the berries of the open plains, where they could easily be waylaid and caught by the growing wolf cubs.

The first yap had hardly left his throat when the thunder roared, and something seared the wolf's side like a hot iron.

Before them as they ran every trail of wolf and caribou and snow-shoe, and every distant landmark, had vanished; the world was but a chaos of mad rolling snow clouds; and behind themTheir stout little hearts trembled as they saw not a vestige of the trail they had just made.

For at the first move the big wolf sprang alertly to his feet, looked deep into Mooka's eyes with that intense, penetrating light which serves a wild animal to read your very thoughts, and instantly his great bushy tail was waving its friendly greeting.

But close by the shore on the edge of the gulf, There sat a vulture flapping a wolf, Who had stolen from the hills but kept away, Scared by the dogs from the human prey; But he seized on his share of a steed that lay, Pick'd by the birds on the sands of the bay.

Nor is there in the vivid group of the vulture flapping the wolf, any accessory to rouse stronger emotions, than those which are associated with the sight of energy and courage, while the covert insinuation, that the bird is actuated by some instigation of retribution in pursuing the wolf for having run away with the bone, approaches the very point and line where the horrible merges in the ludicrous.

Nor is there in the vivid group of the vulture flapping the wolf, any accessory to rouse stronger emotions, than those which are associated with the sight of energy and courage, while the covert insinuation, that the bird is actuated by some instigation of retribution in pursuing the wolf for having run away with the bone, approaches the very point and line where the horrible merges in the ludicrous.

You came to trap a wolf, my man, and now the beast has you down with his fangs in your throat.

"I feel like a wolf.

The people had never seen anything like it before, and they thought it a new kind of bear or wolf or wild boar that had come out of the rock to devour them.

WOLF, HOWARD.

Howard Wolf (A); 2Mar64; R332927.

WOLF, WILLIAM.

William Wolf (A); 17Jan64; R330553. WOLFE, BERTRAM D. Portrait of Mexico.

Omega and the wolf girl.

Thus in the Lay of Bisclaveret, she says, the English translate this name by that of Garwaf, (Were-wolf); in that of Laustic, that they call it Nihtgale (Nightingale); and

She then gives the fable of an ox that assisted at mass, of a wolf that keeps Lent, of a monk disputing with a peasant, &c. Amongst these compilers of fables, we find the names of Romulus, Accius, Bernardus, Talon, and many others anonymous.

The lady, though she felt a secret horror at finding herself the wife of a wolf, pursued her enquiry;Were his clothes also transformed at the same time?

There was no one to ask or to buy from and to kill and eat without permission might be wrong and might get them into difficulty, but one might as well ask a starving wolf to get permission to slay and eat when a fat lamb came across his path as to expect these men to take very much time to hunt up owners.