Show BAREE AREE Son Soil of Kazan I HOMESICK BAREE Part Part wolf part dog doR when when two months month old Daree Baree B r has hRS hia hili first t meeting with an anen ane ine en e n e m y P w young owl Fighting tine hard h rd the an- an n are r plunged Into a a swollen Badly but but- buffeted buffeted feted And hilt halt drowned Cafe DAree le Is finally lly nun flung on the th bank but the th water has hils h de destroyed d troyed tr his sense senile ot of direction and be h Sa le I lt lost oat lonely Jonely lon i And hungry Chapter Continued lI-Continued II Continued 3 Baree was fully three quarters of n mile from the windfall when he carne came cameto cameto to n a point where re the creek split spilt Itself Into two Channels Ile He II had but one choice to the follow follow the stream that owed flowed n a little south and east enst This stream 1 did not run swiftly It was Dot oot filled with shimmering tidies and rocks about which the water san sang and foamed It grew crew black bloc like the lie forest forestt It was still and deep Without know know- knowIng knowing know know-Ine Ing It t Ilaree Buree was burying himself deeper and deeper Into soo's old ol trapping grounds Since hind had haddle dle died the they had lain undisturbed except for the lie wolves WOI for Gra Gray Wolf and ami hind hod not hunted on this side of the waterway and waterway and the wolves wol es theia them elves selves es preferred the more open op open n country for Cor the chase Suddenly Baree found himself at the lie edge of a n deep dark pool In which the water I lay still as ns oil and his heart nearly jumped out o of his bod body when n a great Ireat sleek shining creature sprang sprong out from almost under his no nose e and ami mailed with a tremendous splash In Inthe Inthe the center of It It was I tin thin otter The c otter had Imd not heard Baree and andin In another moment his lils wife came sailing out of a patch of gloom and behind het came three tittle otters leaving behind them four wakes waites In the oily looking oily water What happened after that made Haree Baree forget for a few minutes that he was lost ost hod tad disappeared disappeared under the surface and now lie he came ame up tip directly under his unsuspecting unsuspecting In ing mate mote with a force that lifted her herhalt half out of the at water r Instantly he was gone one a again aln and I took lifter after him fiercely To Baree Haree It did not look like play Two of thin the baby otters had pitched on the third thin which teemed seemed to be he f fighting des desperately The fhe chill chili and ache achte went out out out of Baree's bod body Ills blood ran excitedly he for for- forgot forgot forgot got himself and let out n a bark bork In a flash the he otters disappeared For sev sev- sev- sev several several eral minutes the water In the pool con con- continued to rock and and heave and that was all nil After Arter a little Baree Barel drew hh himself self back bock Into the bushes and went on It was about three o'clock o clock in the afternoon and the sun should still have h been n well up In the sky But It was growing darker steadily and the strangeness eness and fear of It all lent greater reater speed to Baree's Baroe's le legs s lIe topped stopped ever every little while to listen and at one of these Intervals he heard hearda hearda a sound that drew from him a re- re responsive re responsive and Joyous whine It was a distant howl n howl a wolfs wolf's straight howl howl ahead of him Baree Daree was not think thinking In tit wolves olves but hut o of Kazan and he ran through h the gloom o of the forest until he was winded Then he lie stopped and listened a n long time The fhe wolf howl wolf dill did not come a again aln Instead of It there rolled up from tile the west a deep and thunderous rumble Through the treetops there lashed Hushed a vivid streak of A moaning whisper of wind rode In advance of the storm the thunder seemed searching Baree Haree out where he lie stood shivering under a canopy of great rent spruce This was his second storm torm The first had frightened him terribly and ond he lie had crawled far hack Into the shelter o of the windfall hest lif t lie he coul could find now was a hol- hol hollow hol hollow low under miller n a bl big root and Into this lie he slunk crying softly It was a baby baby- babyish Ish cry ry cry for his mother for home for warmth for Si something soft and protecting to nestle up lip to and os as ashe ashe he lu cried the storm burst over oer the forest Bare Bare Baree hall had never ne before heard so noise nole mind unil lie had never ne seen lI lightning play pi-iy In n such sheets of offin- offin fire fin us as when tills this June deluge fell It seemed at nt times time's as though the whole world wr were aflame and anti the earth to shake and roll under th the theT thunder lie He ceased d his crashes of the lie and made roade himself elf as ns small all as ashE ashe ashe hE could under the root which pro pro- protected protected him partly from from the terrific bent nt of the rain which came down throat li the treetops In a flood It wn now flow sn so black that except when the lightning ripped great grot holes in the gloom lie he could not see sec the lie spruce spruce- trunks spruce trunks twenty feet away Twice that distance from front Barte there was a huge hue dead deu stub that stood out like a ghost each time the tires fires swept the sky as asIf asIf asIf If defying the naming laming hands up there thereto thereto to and strike strike and strike at last one of diem did A bluish ton tongue e of snap snap- snapping snapping ping flame lame ran run down the old stub and as ns It touched the earth euth there came a 11 tremendous explosion above the treetops The massive stub shiv shiv- shivered shivered ered red rind Ind then It broke asunder as ns If cloven n by n a gigantic ax It crushed down so close to Baree Ilaree that earth arth an and bricks flew Hew about him ilm and he let out outa outa n a wild yelp ep of t terror ti as ns he lie tried to crowd himself l deeper Into the shallow hole bole under the root With the dt destruction of the old stub the thunder and lightning seemed to bave have vented their malevolency malevolence The on oa wo the south and east like the rolling of ten thousand heavy cartwheels over the roofs of the forest and lind the lI lightning went with lt It I By JAi JAMES s OLIVER CURWOOD Cli tyl Doubleday D d r par Page Ii Co c servie S The rain fell steadily The hole In which he had taken shelter was soppy lIe was wan drenched his teeth chattered as he waited for the next thing to happen It was a n long watt wait When the rain stopped and the sky cleared It t was as night Through the tops of the trees Baree could have bave seen the stars If It he had poked out his head hend and ond looked upward But lint he dun clung to his lils hole Hour after alter hour pa passed d Exhausted d half drowned footsore and antl hungry he did not move At last he fell Into a troubled sleep a n sleep In which every now and then he cried soW softly and forlornly for for- forlornly for his Ills mother Wh When n he ven Yen ventured ventured out from under the root It was morning and the sun was is-as shining At first Baree noree could hardly stand Ills Ifs legs were cramped e every er bone In his bod body seemed out of or joint his Ills ear was stiff slier where the Hie blood hind had oozed out of It and harden hardened d an nn when he tried to wrinkle his Ills wounded nose Hose he gave n u sharp yap of or pain If It such n a athing athine thing were possible he looked even een worse than he felt Ills hair had dried in muddy patches he was dirt stained dirt stained from end to end and where yesterday he hind had b been en plump pump and shiny he was now as ns thin and wretched as ns misfortune could possibly make him And he was hungry lIe had never before known what It meant to be he really hungry When he went on continuing In the direction he had been following yester yester- yesterday yesterday da day he lie slunk aon along In a disheartened sort of wa way Ills head and ears cars were no longer longel alert and his lili curiosity was gone lIe He was not only stomach hun gr gry mother hunger rose above his earning for something to eat He lie wanted his mother as os he lie had never wanted her before In his life lIe wanted to snuggle his shivering little body close dose up to her and fee feel the warn caressing of her tongue and listen to the mothering whine o of her voice And he wanted Kazan and the theod theold old od windfall and that big blue spot that bat was in n the sk sky right o over er It While he followed again along the edge of the creek he lie whimpered for them as ns a child might grieve The forest grew more open after a time and this cheered him up a little Also the warmth of the sun was tak tak- takIng tak- tak taking ing lag the ache out of his Ills body lIe He grew v hungrIer and hungrier lIe He had de- de depended depended de depended entirely on Kazan and Gray GrayWolf GrayWolf Wolf WOJ for food Ills parents had In some ways made malle a n great baby of him him Gray Wolfs Wolf's blindness accounted for this for since his birth she had not taken up her hunting with Kazan and It was quite natural that Baree should stick close to her thou though h more than once he had been bern filled with a n great yearning to 10 follow his father Na- Na Nature Ma Na Mature ture was hard at work trying to over over- overcome overcome come its handicap now It was struggling gling to Impress on Baree that the time had now come when he must seek his own food The fact Im- Im Impinged Im Impinged pinged Itself upon him slowly but butI I steadily and he began benn to think of the three or four shellfish he lie had caught and devoured on the stony creek bar creek near the windfall lIe He also rem remembered em hered berell the open clam shell sheH he be had found and the time lusciousness of the ten ten- tender tender tender der morsel Inside It A new excite excite- excitement excitement ment meat began hegan to possess him lIe He be- be became became be became came nil all at nt once a hunter With the thinning out of or time the forest the creek grew more shallow It ran over m-er bars of sane sand and stones and Baree be began nn to nose along time the edge of these For a long time lie he had no success The few crayfish that he saw were exceedingly ly II lively vel and elusive and all the shells clam were shut so tight that even cen Kazan's powerful Jaws would have ha had difficulty In smashing them It was almost t noon when he caught his Ills first crayfish about as big bigas bigas bigas as a 1 mans man's forefinger He lie devoured It ravenously Tile The taste of food gave ve I frt fresh sh courage lIe He caught two more cra crayfish during the afternoon It was almost dusk when lie he stirred a ayoun ayoung ayoung youn young rabbit out from under a con cover r of grass It If he had been a u month older he lie could have hove caught It lIe was ns still ver very hungry r for three cray cray- cra crayfish f scattered fish fish scattered through h the had day day hadnot not done much to fill the emptiness that was growing steadily In him With th the approach of night Daree's fears and ond gnat loneliness returned the day had quite gone goue he found himself a n shelter under a n big rock where there was a warm soft bell bed of ot sand Since his Ills fi fight ht with he be had traveled a long distance and und the rock under which he made his bed this night was at least cl eight ht or nine miles tulles from the windfall It was In th the open of the cr creek ek bottom with the dirk dark forest of spruce und and close on either Ither side and the moon ros rose rose and amid the lie stars stal'S filled the th sky Baree could look out and see sec the water of the st stream nm shimmering in a aglow aglow glow almost as bright as day Directly DI- DI DIrt Di Directly rt In front of him running to the waters water's edge was a broad brond carpet of white sand sund Across this sand and half an hour later Inter came carne n a huge black bear beor Until Baree had seen the otters at play In the creek his conceptions of the forests had bad not gone beyond his own kind and such creatures as owls and rabbits and and small feathered things The otters had not frightened him him because he still measured things b by size c and was not half as bl big as Kazan But the bear hear was a 1 monster beside which Kazan n would have st stood od a n mere pigmy If nature was ns taking this wa way of introducing Baree to the fact lint there were more Important creatures In the lie forests than do dogs s and wolves and owls and crayfish she was driving the point home witha with a a little more than thon necessary emphasis For the lie bear weighed wel six hundred pounds If he weighed an nn ounce lIe He was fat and sleek from a months month's feasting on fish Ills shiny coat was like black velvet In the moonlight and he walked with witha a curious rolling roiling motion with his head hung low 0 The he horror grew when he stopped slopped broadside in the carpet of sand not more than ten feet from th the rock under which Daree Baree was shivering as If lie he hind hail the ague agile It was quite evident that had caught scent of him In the air Baree could hear him sniff could sniff could hear hl his caught breathing breathing the starlight flashing in his Ills reddish brown eyes as they swung suspiciously toward the big boulder If It Dame Baroe could have known then lien that his he-his he Ills Insignificant little was self self was making that monster actually nervous and uneas uneasy he hI would have hae given a n yelp of joy For Wa Waka a I yoo In spite of his size was somewhat of a coward when It came to wolves I And Baree carried the wolf scent It grew rew stronger In nose and just then as If to Increase whatever r nervousness ner was growing In him there came from out of the forest behind him a long waIlIng walling howl With an on audible grunt moved on Wolves were pests he ar- ar argued ar argued gued They wouldn't stand up and fight They'd snap and yap at nt ones one's heels for hours at n a time nm and were always out of the way quicker than a wink when wn n one turned on them What was the time use of hanging around where there were wolves on a beautiful night like this lie He lumbered on decisively Baree could hear him splashing hea heavily II ily ly through the time water of the creek Not until then did the wolf dog draw drav drava a full breath It was almost a Ii gasp But the excitement was not over for forthe forthe the night Baree hind had chosen his bed bedat bedat bedat at a place where the animals animals come came comedown down to drink and where the they crossed from one of or the creek forests to the theother theother theother other Not Jon long lone after th the bear hind had disappeared he lie heard heard a heavy crunch crunch- crunching crunching InIn ing In In the time sand and hoofs rattling against stones and a n bull moose with witha a huge sweep of or antlers passed through the open space In th the Baree stared with popping eyes for If had hind weighed six hundred pounds this gl gigantic antIc creature whose legs were so long that It seemed to be walking on stilts weighed nt at least twice ns MI much A cow moose followed rind then a n calf The calf seemed all legs It wa was too much for Baree and he shoved himself farther and farther hack under the rock until he be lay Jay wedged In like a n sardine In a box And there he lIe lay until morning When Bart Baree e ventured venture forth from under his Ills rock rt at t the be beginning of the next da day he lie was WiS a much older puppy than when lie he met young owl In Ills his path near the old od windfall If It experience can an be minds made to take the place of age e he hind hod aged ageda a great 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