Show C Son f Kazan r I WARY BEAVER Part p l part wolf part dog doc hen two months month old Daree Baree has his Ills first t meeting with an cn enemy y o 0 u n I g gowl owl Fighting hard the tir antagonists ant K are suddenly plunged into Inlo II a swollen creek Badly and half halt drowned Daree Baree Is final final- finally finally ly flung nunc on the bank but bul the water waler has ha destroyed his sense or of direction and he ho Is lost lonelY and hun hungry ry For many days his lit Is I one orie of or tear rear and lIe meets various arlous creatures creature or of orthe the wild and goes ROC through h I a thunderstorm lie Is learning moro and more Ha Its strays into Inlo the trapping grounds of or Pierrot and nd Nep es wounds w I Daree Baree with a rifle but b t he ho es- es escapes escapes es escapes capes I Chapter Continued ll II Continued f 6 6 T fT The wings made a great tumult about Baree but but they di did not hurt him He burled his Ills fangs tangs Ills snarls f ro rose e more fiercely as IS lie he got the taste of blood and through hIm him there surged more hotly holly tile the desire to kill this monster of or the night as though in tIle the death of this creature he had the opportunity of avenging H himself for all the lie hurls hurts amid ond hardships that hud had befallen him since lucelio ho lost his Ills mother had hud never ne felt a great grent fear until now Tl The rl e a lynx had snapped at him but once tint once was gone gone leav lea leaving leaving ing him crippled But nut the lynx had hadnot hadnot not snarled In that wolfish way and It had not hung on A thousand and one nights had hall listened to the tho wolf-howl wolf Instinct In had told hIm what It meant meant Ue lie had seen Sien the packs pass swiftly through h the night and always when they they passed hp he laid kept In the deepest shadows To him him himas as for tor all other wild thin things s the wolf wolf- wolf howl howl stood for death But Dut until il now with Baree's arees aree's fangs burled In hl his le leg he had had never ne sensed fully the wolf wolf- wolf fear fear It had taken It years year to enter Into hiS hia slow Blow stupid but head head but now that it was there It possess it him ns as asno asno no o other thing hid had ever eYer poss d d l him himIn himIn himIn In all his Ins life Suddenly ci r I i rd fr his heating and launched himself upward Like huge fans hiss his power III nl m v churned the air and Baree art e felt fett him gelf 1 feIr elf lifted suddenly from t tie 11 earth 01 t rth Still he held and on-and on and In a n mi ment both hoth bird and beast fell felt bark bar with ith a thud tr tried tred d again This time he was more successful and ond he lie rose tully fully six feet Into the air with Baree Barce They fell again A third time the old outlaw fought to wing himself free of Parees Paree's grip and then exhausted lie he helay helay lay with his giant lant wings outspread hissing and cracking his bill Under those wings Baree's arees aree's mind worked d with the swift Instincts of time the killer Suddenly he changed change his Ills hold burying his Ills fangs fans Into the under part of body sank Into three Inches of feathers Swift as aj n Baree ree hind been WJ was equally swift to take tae a e 0 of hIs opportunity In an nn h c 1 hn had swoope swooped upward There w wi w wi a i n a r ln ing of feathers from flOm fl mil and n na Bat was alone on the fiel field of hatte Baree had not killed but h he lw had con conquered HIs Ills first filst great grcar d ly ly-I ly iv r night had had come The wor world word J wn ra filled with a new promise for r him as vast ast as tho iho night Itself And r rt a moment he lie sat back on his hes sniffing tIle the air nir for his Ills beaten enemy and then as if It defying th the f f monster to tn come conic back null nod fl n lIt lir to tin end end ho pointed Ills his sharp little l mu to to the stars and sent forth hi imi first babyish wolf howl into the Chapter Baree's fight with was goo good medicine for him It not only gave ave him great confidence In himself hut but It also cleared the fever of u ugliness ugliness Ji- Ji ness from his Ills blood lie no longer snapped and ond snarled at things as lie he went on through the night Ills His wound was much less painful the next rt day an and L- L by nightfall nig he 1 had noticed d It at all Since hIs almost tragic end at the hands hanels of lie he had been traveling In ht a general northeasterly direction m follow follow- followIng following following ing instinctively the run of the water water- waterways waterways hind been heen slow ways but hut his Ills progress and when darkness came carne again he lie was wa not more than eight ot of ten miles from rom the hole into which lie he hind had fallen after arrer the Willow had shot him Ml All sounds now held a I meaning for Duree Baree Swiftly he lie was coming into his knowledge of the wilderness Ills Ilis ees eyes gleamed his blood thrilled For tuan many minutes at a n time line time he lie s moved But of oIl nil the sounds ls that came ame to him the cry wolf thrill d hint him must lost Again find and tt i tn n he lie 1 ii l i n i-n l to toi It At times timer It t uis as is fur far n i niso so far that it was as ble lit e II d Ill 11 u aw almost t heft before readied d II lull Iiii and i win irin an it ir o ll 01 0 id 1 mite oine t tr rim full full- fullIL Ill full th IL oH 01 d 1 J h ho l ill t h time till un h 01 of th cl tl Ih ilir I Iii II j d ct cl li 11 i r fn rs rel no th tin hinr to I li I try ry of iron l 0 I 1 en i I 1 d I aIm Ilin I q t 1 i Jl JI i 1 1 t LUlu h l Iv II li i 1 I kin kill r re l of ot his his nei I flie ll J f i ns n's r I 11 ii Ito to to f P I lii eil j I nf f his mothers mother's r I n It I II v r I fa f f's voice seek seek- p i I liI ii-i- ii in I i ray riv V b U r I I Itin itin II r 1 II 10 W WC C c It it fi Park k J I i i r-p r rP f trembled as a he hie listened It In his th uit th-uit at he whined softly lIe He edged ot of of to Ume t c face race a n rock Hr om d to 10 go 0 nature was wa urging him liln o 0 o to 11 o But the cull call of the the wild was war against t odds for fur In fin 1 bini bin i By JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD CUR Q Double Doubleday Pare P ce CO Service was the dog with Its generations of subdued and ond sleeping In instincts and instincts andall all that night the do dog In him kept Baree to the lie top of his rock nick I Next morning Baree found many crawfish along the creek creel an and he feasted on their succulent flesh until he felt feIt that he lie would never be hungry again aln Nothing had tasted quite so good since he lie had molten eaten ell ten the lie partridge e of which he lie had hind robbed roLLed the ermine cImine In the middle of the afternoon Baree Barce came Into a 11 part of the forest that was very quiet uret and very er peaceful f l The creek had deepened In places Its banks banIs swept out until they small smaIl ponds Twice he made consider considerable able detours to get around round these ponds He traveled very velY quietly quietly listening and watching Not since Ill fated the day he had hall left the old windfall winMan hud had h he felt feIt quite so much at dome lOme as now It seemed to him him that at In last t he was treading country which he knew and where lie he would find friends Perhaps this was another miracle mystery of ofIn In instinct of ot of nature For lie he was In old tooth's Beaver domain It wits us here that Ills ids father and mother had holl hunt hunted In the days duys before he lie was born It was not far from here that Kai Knan an anon on and tooth had fought ht that that mighty duel under water from which Kazan hind had escaped with his Ins life with with- without without out another breath to lose Tile The forest grew rew deeper It was wonderful There was no undergrowth and traveling under the trees was like lIlie being In a vast mystery filled cavern through the roof of which the lie light of day broke softly brightened here and there by golden sp splashes ashes of the the sun For a n mile Barce Baree aree made his his way quietly through this forest oest lIe He saw nothing s r rI rI rt I I t 4 w a- a aw ar aI a r I I Know How to Play but a n fw II f w winged fittings S 'S of bird birds there was wa almost no sound Then h lit came to a still larger pond Around this pond there there was a thick growth of allers and willows the larger r trees hind had thinned out He lIe saw the glimmer of afternoon sunlight on the water water- water und mind then all at OI once ce he heard life There had been few changes In tooth's tooth's Beaver colony since the da days s 's of Ills his feud with Kazan Kazon mil and time the others Old Ben Be n tooth fi-tooth was cons still older ohler lIe was fatter He lIe slept a great greut deal dealand and perhaps he was less cautious lie was s-as dozing on the great rent und mud mud brushwood brushwood bi dam damn of which lie he hind had been Leen engineer in ch ef when Baree came out softly on a high bank Lank thirty ty or forty feet away So noiseless hall hail Laree Baree been that none of the beavers hind had seen sern or heard him lIe He squatted 8 himself flat Oat on hIs Ills belly hidden be- be behind be behind hind a tuft of grass and with ea eager er interest watched ery e every movement tooth tooth Heaver was wall as himself Il He tie stood tood on Ills hits short le legs for a 11 moment then he tilted himself up 11 on his hits broad fiat fint tall talI like a I soldier at attention and 81 with a sudden whistle dived Into the pond with a n great splash In rn another moment It l seemed to tn Baree that hint the ponil was alive with bearers heads lIend and bodice s appeared and disappeared rushing this Wll way and anel through the wate water r in a manner that amazed and puzzled him hlin It rt was n-as the colony's s evening c nin frolic Toils Us hit the water like Hat flat hr s 1 ards Ir s Odd whis rids rids- his his- S s ro c above the and splashing-and splashing then as is as It had begun time the end There were play came to an twenty Leaven beavers mit counting the I min nun and in J s liS if guided by hy a com com- common common mon mop I Inal something which h Baree h hail el nil nI they the her her-alii nor her-nor so qui flint hardly a n Found lie he heard henr urd lin in the pont pond A few v fe w of them Rank sank 1111 tin un- tipI her lor the water and disappeared entirely nut hut most of theta them Baree could IS as they drew themselves the out not on nn shor shore floe b 1 Do no thin In I gelting I I it at thou their lil amid airl Buee UIt 1 1 rI I an umli i v i Ii i t 4 II 11 II p- p IIII J ii i I VIII a blade leof ot of the grass in which he tic was I concealed He was vas ln ir t to III cJ I r tODd stand He was WI wn striving t rl in to 10 pe i lii e these fI nod d coIll r lv clI crea- crea creatures a- a 1 tures in hl his lt l j of things s nt th n LI nud- nud i hint hint- liiri ii Iii I r i r r 10 I ll II I II a aten ten teD feel e l inure ben 11 lir Le II III I lr that almost gave gan voice to I the lon longing loSt IDI K for shIp that was In him Down there on a clean strip of th tir I f shore that rose nut out of the tho sort soft mud n othe little and aull the Ibe pond lond waddled fat tat three of Ills hIs playmates was OS just about Baree's aI age perhaps a week weel or two younger Ir But nut lie he wa was lully as os heavy heay and amid almost as wide M as ashe he was long Nature can con produce no DO footed four footed creature that is more lov lov- lovable lovable able than a baby beaver unless It is a baby hear bear and would have liae taken first prize at nay any HI beaver r baby show In time the world Ills llis three three com com- companions companions were a bit smaller They came waddling from behind a low lo lowll wil wll willow willow low making tanking queer little chuckling noises their little Hat flat tails dragging like tin tiny sledges behind them They were fat and furry and antI mighty friend friendly ly Iy looking to Baree Barco and his heart halt beat Leat beata Leata a sudden swift pit pat of jo joy But linree did not move e He scarce scarce- scarcely scarcely scarcely ly breathed AntI And then suddenly turned on one of his playmates and bowled hint over Instantly the theother theother other two were on Um Sk and the four little heavers beavers rolled robed o er over and over oyer I kickin kicking with their short feet and spat spat- ting ling with their tails taHa and all the time tIme 1 emitting soft little squeaking cries Baree knew that It was not fight hut but frolic Ho lie rose up on his Ills feet lIe forgot where he was forgot was forgot every every- everything everything thing hr lir the world but those play play- playIng playing ing fug furry halls balls For the moment all the time hard halll training nature hind been giving him was lost lIe He wa was no longer a fighter no longer a hunter no longer a seeker after food lIe He wasa wasa was a puppy and amt in him him there rose a de de- desire sire that was WM greater than hunger tie lIe wanted anted to 0 go JO down there with and i Ms Is little chums and roll rolland roland and play H Hi lie wanted to tell them If such n thing were possible that hI he had lost his mother and his his home homo and that he lie had been having a mi mighty hard time of It It and that he lie would like to I Ista sta stay with them and their mothers and fathers If the they didn't care In his Ills throat there came th the the least hit hilt of a n whine It was teas so low that and his playmates did not heat hear hearIt hearit It They were tremendously tillS busy SOm Softly Barce Baree took his first step t to toward ward them an and then another and another and nt at last he stood tood on the narrow strip of 01 shore within half a dozen feet of them Ills sharp little ears were ere pitched for for- forward forward forward ward anti and he lie was vas wiggling his tall as last fast as he could and every muscle In his body was trembling In anticipation It was then lien that saw him him and his fat little Lo body became suddenly as motionless as a stone Hello said Baree wl wiggling lilt his whole body and tal touting talking ing as plainly as asa asa asa a hU human tongue could talk Do you care If I pla play with you made no response Ills HIs three playmates now had road their eyes es on Ba no Baree Barce ree They lher didn't make male a move moye They looked stunned shunned Four pairs of staring wondering ey eyes s were fixed on the stranger Baree made another effort lIe groveled lO el d on his Ills forelegs s while his Ills tall talland talland and hindle s continued to wiggle gle and with a n sniff lie he grabbed a a bit hit of stick between his teeth Come let on-let on let t me In he urged 1 know how liow to Ilia play lIe He tossed the stick In the air as it II to prove pro what lie he was sn saying and gave gava a little yap and Ills hits brothers brothels were like dummies And then of a sudden some one on saw Barce Daree It was vas a big beaver swim swimming ming down the pond with a tim timber er for the new pond that was un on under der del way woy In Instantly lie he loosed his Ills hold and faced facell time the shore share And tI then n like the report of ot a rIlle rifle there a carne came me time the th crack of his big flat fiat tail on the water water- water time the beavers beaver's signal of danger flange that 00 onn a l Iet night can Lq heard half a nails milE away Danger It warned Danger dan Danger danger ger danger danger l 1 I Scarcely hind the signal gone forth when tails were c cracking imig In all nIl ln lions In the pond pond in time the hidden ca canals nals in the thick willows and alders ahlers To and his companions the said Run nun for your our lives fives I Buree Baree stood rigid and D now In amazement h ha watched thE tour four little beavers plunge Into the pond and disappear He 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