Show t ed r v s ADVENTURERS' ADVENTURERS CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE a cc The e Gray a Fanged Terror ELLO EVERYBODY H HELLO Dorothy Dublin of Brooklyn N. N Y wins the place of honor today with the story of a terrible experience that once happened to her dad That makes her dad Jacob Dublin Dublin Dub Dub- lin the clubs club's newest Distinguished Adventurer Adventured It happened in Russia in the town of near the city of Minsk close dose by what is now the Polish border and it happened forty-eight forty years ago in the late fall of 1888 when Jacob Dublin was just dust a little year old boy If Ifa a grown man had gone through the adventure that little Jake encountered on a lonely country road that chilly fall evening in 1888 it would still be a wow of a story But when when an adventure of that sort happens to a year old kid well then well then you have a new definition of the true meaning meaning meaning mean mean- ing of the word terror They had wolves in West Russia in those days For that matter you'll still find wolves in certain parts of Russia today Then there were plenty of them them and and more than afew a afew afew few lurked in the forests around Those wolves gave little Jake Dublin plenty to worry about too For it was his duty to dr drive ve his fathers father's horses to the feeding ground every day and that feeding ground was on the edge of the forest Wolves Harmless During Morning Hours It wasn't driving the horses TO the p pasture so much as driving them home again in the evening that worried little Jake In the mornings the wolves never bothered anyone But in the evening emboldened by bythe bythe bythe the darkness they had been known to attack grown men The result was that little Jake had to be mighty sure to bring those horses back from pasture while it was still light And if it it ever happened he was delayed until dusk began to fall well then well then his dad took over the job of br bringing nging those horses home But one day things went wrong out at the pasture pasture and and little Jake Dublin almost didn't get back He lie started early enough If U he had come como back as promptly there wouldn't have been any danger But trouble started when he reached the feeding reeding ground and tried to bring the horses home There was a beautiful filly hi In n the herd called Tara which was as yet unbroken A couple of or times before she had been hard to manage but this afternoon Jake co couldn't do anything with her For almost an hour he be chased her about the pasture trying to get her under control It was almost dark by the time he got her quieted and still he had the other horses to round up It took him another 10 or 15 minutes to t f Suddenly a a. lithe gray form shot out of the woods and sank its teeth into the neck Decle of or the fir first t horse get all the beasts tethered together one behind the other the way his dad had taught him to bring them in and by that time it was night Little Jake Has Choice of Two P Paths The forest to one side of him was ominously stilL Dark treetops loomed over him silent against an almost pitch black sky Little Jake knew it was no hour for a year old boy to be out alone He knew that the quicker he got home the better There were two paths he could take on his way home One path turned into a road that ran along the edge of the thc forest It was a roundabout way but it was a little safer than the other The other ran part way through the forest It was more dangerous than the first route but it was shorter and it went straight toward his home Faced with a a. choice between these two paths little Jake chose the one that went through the forest On either path there was danger from wolves Jake picked the shorter way because because he well he wanted to get home just as fast as he be could He started down the path leading his long string of horses He hadn't gone very far when suddenly Tara who was the second horse inthe in inthe inthe the line began egan to get unruly again She bucked and reared The rest of the horses became nervous and fidgety Wondering what was the matter with Tara now Jake moved down the line and tried to calm her But the horse wouldn't be calmed Something was frightening her herand herand herand her her- and frightening her mighty badly too Little Jake Jakc wasn't long in finding out what was frightening Tara Suddenly a lithe gray form shot out of the thc brush alongside alongside along along- side of the path and aDd sank its teeth Into the neck of the first horse A wolf Forest Turns Into Io n a Shrieking Bedlam Then in an instant the flit stillness of the forest was rent by hy a shrieking bedlam The other horses screamed and struggled while the first horse blood gushing from his throat was pulled down by the thc wolf So far the wolf had paid no attention to little Jake He lie was too intent on making his kill But now other wolves were coming attracted by the noise and the scent of blood Jake could hear their weird howling coming nearer and nearer When the rest of the pack arrived well then well then hed he'd be in for It it Then there would be a general slaughter of his poor anImals animals animals ani anI- mals and he too would find fwd how it felt to have a wolfs wolf's fangs tearing at his throat He stood in the midst of his rearing plunging horses too stiff sUfI with would it do him to run anyway fright to move a step What good Those Thos wolves could pick up a scent and follow it faster taster than he could run And then little Jake saw it-a it light Far down the path half hal obscured obscured ob another another and and another by trees a torch was flaring Then he saw to him to stay where He could hear voices now now now-men's men's mens voices shouting voices too He slunk off into the forest he was The wolf wol heard those stilled In a few moments and the howls of the advancing pack were had started combing combing combing comb comb- a band of ot villagers came running up the trail They nightfall and they ing the forest when little Jake didn't get home by had arrived just in time to insure his getting home at all Released by Western Newspaper Union |