| Show I WHITE He ran again through the si silence silence silence si- si lence hunting his living food through h the months of or famine And again he ran at the head of the team the gut whips of sah and Gray Beaver snapping behind their voices crying Raa P Ilaa Raa when I they C came me to a narrow passage and the thc team closed together like a fan fanto fanto fanto to go through He lived again all aU his lays clays s 's with Beauty Smith and the fights he h hd d fought At such times limes he whimpered and snarled in his sleep and they who looked on said that his dream were bad But the there thee e was one ne particular nightmare from which he suffered the th the clanking clanging monsters of electric ele cars that were to him colossal screaming lynxes He would lie in a a. screen of bushes I watching watching- for a a. squirrel to venture far enough out on the ground from its tree refuge Then when h he sprang out upon It it would transform transform transform trans trans- transI I form itself Into an electric car menacing and terrible towering I over him like a mountain screamIng scream- scream I ling ing and clanging and spitting fire at him It was the he same when he challenged the hawk down out of the sk sky Down out of the blue it I would rush as it dropped upon him changing itself into the ubiquitous electric car Or again he would be in the pen of Beauty Smith Outside Outside Outside Out Out- I side the pen men would be gathering gathering gath gath- I ering and he knew that a a fight g was oil on He watched c wt the door o for his 1 I antagonist to enter The Thedoor Thedoor door would open and thrust In I upon him would come come the awful electric car cat A j thousand times this occurred and each time the terror I I It Inspired was as vivid and great as eV ever I Then en came the day dav when the last bandage and the last plaster cast I were taken talen off ote It was a gala day I All AU Sierra Vista was gathered gathel d around The master rubbed his ears ears and he crooned his Ms bye growl I I I The masters master's wife wite called him the Blessed Wolf WoH which name was I taken up With ith acclaim and all the women called him the Blessed Y Wolf volt lt I He tried to rise to his feet and after several attempts fell down from weakness He Ho had lain so soI long that his muscles had lost their theil I cunning and all the strength had hadI gone out of them He Jelt felt a little le I shame because of his weakness as though forsooth he were tailing falling the gods in the service he owed them Because of this he ho made I I heroic herol efforts to arise and at last I 1 stood on four legs tottering and andI I swaying back and forth I The Blessed Wolf Volf chorused the women I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Judge Scott surveyed ed them tri tn- trl I I Out of your jour own mouths be it ft I II I he said Just as I contended right I along No o. ere do dog could have done what u lid dId Hes He's a a. wolf 1 A Blessed Wolf Volf amended the Judges Judge's wife I Yes Blessed Wolf agreed the judge And henceforth that shall be my name for him Hell have to learn to walk I again said the surgeon so he might as well vell start in right now BOW It wont won't hurt him Take him outI out out- I side I And outside he went like a king with all Sl Sierra vista ista about him and tending on him i He was very weak and when he reached the lawn he la lay down and rested for a a. while Then the procession started on little spurts of strength coming Into White Fangs Fang's muscles as he used them and the blood blood- began to toI I surge through them The stables were reached and there In the doorway door door- J way lay Collie a half dozen pudgy puppies playing about her In the II sun White Fang Pang looked on with a wondering eye Collie snarled warningly at him hinl and he was careful care care- I ful to l keep his distance The masI master mas nias I ter tel with hl his helped one sprawlIng sprawling sprawl- sprawl Ing puppy toward him lie He bristled I suspiciously suspicious but the master warned I hIir that all was ivas well Collie clasped In the arms of one of the tho women watched him Jealously and with a snarl warned him that all was not well I The puppy sprawled in front of him He cocked his ears and watched i it 1 curiously Then their noses touched and he felt the warm little ton tongue ue of oJ on his Jowl White Fangs Fang's tongue went out he knew not wh why and he licked the puppy's face Hand-clapping Hand and pleased cries from the gods greeted the per per- He He was surprised and looked at them In a puzzled wa way Then his weakness asserted itself and nd he lay down his eats ears cocked his head on one side as he watched the puppy The other puppies came sprawling toward him to Collies Collie's great disgust t and he gravely gravel permUted permitted permitted per per- mUted them to clamber and tumble over him At first amid the applause applause ap ap- ap- ap of ot the gods he betrayed a EI trine trifle of his old self-consciousness self and awkwardness This passed away as the puppies puppies' antics and mauling continued and he lay with shut half-shut patient eyes drowsing In the sun I The end I |
