| Show RE AREE Son Soar of Kazan Hog CK BARES BAREE Fart wolf tart part des do II old DAr Sar OP r Iw lRe with an anal al 1 Ant t oun heo hard bard t he ao an- F I ludden plunged state alI are fI creek creak Badly bura but bur a ai 4 drowned Bare I. I halt bait 4 aD end the bank nh but th the Ill ap a I on hi hll un ene of tl o- o an 04 be b. U le lot lost lonely Saucy Dlf Continued I three quarter quarters of a athe was 11 rally folly ae ih windfall when he came cam cameI e the I m Che a creek split Itself f o than lIe He had bad but one e to 10 the follow stream that tha tittle with south and east ThU I J I a V did dad n not t run swiftly It was wa s led with rimes riffles an and d about the water sang and d It block black like the forest u. u II Treat stUl and deep Without kno know know- w Baree wan burying himself f ol oW oWL Into 44 Ind deeper L Df pounds Since ha had d they bed bad lain undisturbed except t e 1 wolves far fray rny Wolf and 1 Ld pad bad not hunted on this side o of ot f and the wolves them them- preferred the more open country countr y e chase denly Dor Baree found himself at nt th theof the e If of a deep dark pool in which th the theia e ia lay still it ros as oil and his hear t Lumped lumped Jumped out of Ms his body when ateek a n Wk leek shining creature sp sprang ang g iLi m almost under his nose and an and d Id d with witha a tremendous splash f In n of ot It It t was th the e tad not hearth heard farce Baree and an d bitter ber moment his s fame came sailing out of a n patch o of f 1 md Sad behind het lief came three dare e otters leaving behind them four foul fou r wakes In to the oily looking g t. t happened after th that at Baree aree forget for n few minutes minute s Ite he be was lost lest had p pe d under dander the surface and ond now h heup he heup e up sp directly under his hi i t itt ate with a force that lifted he her r Sat oat of the water Instantly h he e tune pie again and too took k km fiercely To 10 Baree Ilaree It di dit did d look t k like e play Two of the bab baby y L had pitched on the third which h ed to 10 be fighting desperately T Tand The he I and ind ache went out of Baree's Daree's g Ills His blood ran excitedly he be fo for for- r- r Suit telf and let out a n bark Inthe In aIbe a the Ibe otters disappeared For sev sev- se tales mates the be water In the pool cos cosIto con con- 1 d Ito to rock and heave and heave and th that at I I ID After Afler a little Baree drew w back Into the bushes and aDd SE d on o. o I rai in ses about three o'clock In the he t risen non noD and the sun slIn should st still sUII ill I ten bleu well up In the sky But Dut It it crowIng darker steadily and ti the e guess NUU and fear flar of It nil all lentfer lent le leter rat ler ter fer speed to Barons Baron's legs Ii He lIe e every little while to listen n it at one cue of these Intervals he heart heard d d that Hint drew from him a r ree rere re- re e- e re ce e and Joyous whine It was a ait it t a howl wolfs wolf's howl howl straight ht d do of him Bar Baree was not thinking rag but tot of Kazan and he hers Tar ran ragn n rh the gloom of ot the forest un unu until ail u i winded Then he stopped and d d a I long lone time The wolf how howl w Sot lot ot come again Instead o of li It 1 rolled ailed op up from the west a de deep ep t s ft rumble Through t th the he 7 i cu H n VI Via area 01 O of f A moaning v whisper of wInd wine In to advance of the storm the w teemed searching Baree out be w stood shivering under a J J 1 of peat great spruce This was his has The first had frightened ly nil and he lee had crawled far Into the Ibe shelter niter of the windfall 1 teat W he be could find now was a hol hoi 1 rider ander i t big root and Int Into this he erring erling softly It u was a baby erg try for his j- j mother mOlher for for W warmth for something soft soft to nestle up to add ad aj as the be storm hurst burst over the had never before heard t so tube noIse and he hn had I never seen n nt play to In h sheets of u I hen Shea t this June Jun deluge fell ell it al I It d were tere 1 times ns as though the whole aflame ed d to 10 and na the earth shake ahnke roll ro under the of 0 Ule Uie thunder r. r Ile III r g and made blade ceased his lass said d under as small as ed the root whIch him pro pro- partly of 0 th the rain from tine the terrific h came carne d nib all the down wn 10 ea 10 treetops black to In n a flood I ITt It that eXcEpt Tt when be could ripped ed holes holo In th the treaty feEt not St see 80 the spruce We antrum Baree awny Twice that tha that d stab that there was a huge stood tI e th tb tires Out like n a ghost fling the swept the sky as flaming hands up there Sad aDd dill strike at last dl A one of am ton tongue ue of ran down snap snap- Is It II touched the old tub stub I a the there topa The above bd Iben It massive stub shiv shit broke brokl II bJ I asunder as a It If It to crashed I ae about ut that earth and felp of him and he let out dam terror 4 as ho he t deeper trIed to tn bar r the root into the hallor shallow hallo Iba s Ih destruction of the old stub t I. I and 1111 0 traced seemed their to tot pa malevolence ed the Ik oe the e south and fag ha Of ten lEn thousand oVer IUd ud the Ibe ties tho roofs roof of the went with It U. By JAMEs Jas OLIVER CURWOOD CR 1 Doubleday Page a Co ca Service The rain fell fail steadily The t. t u t hole In which he had taken shelter I He was soppy e was drenched his teeth chattered as as he wal waited ed for the happen next thing 6 t to It was wai a lon long watt walt When Wilen the rain stopped and the sky cleared It nl night ht was Through the tops tope of the trees Baree Daree could have Ie seen en the stars If he had poked out his hI head and looked upward But Dut h he clung clang to hI hh his hole Hour after hour passed I Exhausted halt half drowned footsore and hungry he did not move At last he ho fell tell Into a t troubled sleep A sleep In n which every everl now and then he cried softly and for for- for his mother When he ven cen out from under the root It t was morning and the sun Bun was shining At first Arst Baree Dareo could hardly stand His legs we were e cramped every bone In n his body seemed out of Joint his ear was wal stiff where the blood had oozed out of It and hardened an na when he tried to wrinkle his wounded nose he be gnus gave a sharp yap rap of ot pain If It such a n thing were possible he be looked even ern worse than he felt Ills hair load had dried In muddy patches he be was dirt dirt- stained from end to end and where yesterday he bad hod been plump and shiny he was now ns as thin anI and wretched as ns misfortune could possibly make him And he ha was hun hungry ry lie had hOd never before known what whet It meant to be really hungry When he tae went on on continuing In th the e direction he had been following yesterday yester yester- day he slunk slang along In a n disheartened 4 sort of way Ills head and Ii ears rs were wern no longer alert and I hla hia curiosity wa was s gone He TIe was not only stomach hun I gry moth mother lounger r rose above e hl his s physical yearning for something to t eat lIe He wanted his m mother ns as he ha had d never wonted wanted her ber before In his lire life He lie wanted to snuggle his has shIverIng g little bOdy close up to her and feel teel the tine warm warm caressing of of her tongue am and 1 listen to the mothering whine of he her r voice And he wanted Kazan and the theold theold e old windfall and that big blue epo spot t that was In n the sky right over it It While he followed again along the e edge of the creek he whimpered for fol r them as a child might grieve The forest grew more open after atter a time and this cheered him up a little Also Also the warmth of ot the sun was taking tak took ing rag the ache out of his body He lIe grew grey v hungrier and hungrier He lIe had bad d depended depended de de- e handed entirely on Kazan and Gray y Wolf for food Ills His parents parent had In n some ways made maden madea a great baby of him bloc Gray Wolfs Wolf's blindness accounted to for r this thIll for since his birth she had hod not no not f taken up her hunting with Kazan one an and d It was wu quite natural that Baree Barce shout should d stick close to her tier though more than n once he had beEn filled Ailed with a n gre great at yearning to toll follow ow his father Nature Na No ture lure was hard at nt work worl trying to over ore r come Its handicap now v. It was struggling sago g gling to Impress on farce Daree that th the e time had now come coons when he mu mus must st seek lass Ills own elan food tood The fuel fact i Impinged Im m pinged Itself upon him slowly b bu but ut steadily and he began begon to think of th the e three or four shellfish he had caught caugh rat and devoured on the stony creek bar r near tho the windfall He lIe also remel n bared the open clam shell shE'll he ha had d found and the lusciousness of the tender ten der morsel Inside aside It A Anew new lIew excitement excite excite- ment meat began to possess him halm He lIe b became became be be- e came cameaU all aU at once n a hunter With the thinning out of the tile forest fore st the the- creek reek gr grew w mo more e shallow It ra ron ran n over bars bare of sand and ana stones and Baree began to nose along the tine edge I of these theBe For a s long time he tae had hod no success The few crayfish that he be saw were exceedingly lively and elusive a arid and nd all aU the shells clam-shells were shut so 80 tight that even Kazan's powerful Jaw vs would have had difficulty In smashing them It was almost noon when he lie caught his first cra crayfish sh about as big bigas bigas as ass a 0 mans man's forefinger lIe He devoured detoured It ravenously The taste of food gave slim hIm fresh courage He lIo caught two more crayfish during the afternoon It was almost dusk when he stirred a ayoung ayoung ayoung young young rabbit out from under a er co of gross grass If he had boen boon n II month older he be could have caught It ft lIe He was still very hungry for three crony crony- fish scattered fish scattered through the day had day had hadnot not done donI much much to fill till the emptiness that was growing steadily y In him With the approach of night Baree's fears tears ol great loneliness returned Before the the day lay had hind quite gone he f found himself n shelter under a big rock where there was a warm soft lott bed of sand Since his lots tight light with he lie had load traveled a long distance and the rock under which he made his bed this night was at least eight or nine miles e. from the windfall It w was was s In the open of ot the creek crek bottom with the tine dark duk forest of spruce and cedars close on either side and when L- L i f 1 f i ifO o 1 he tho moon rosy ros and tile the stars Stara filled the sky Baree could look out and see ace the w water ater of the stream shimmering In fn glOW Blow a almost as ns bright as na day Dl Dl- In n front of him running to the th waters water edge was a broad carpet o of f w white hite sand Across this hour sand half a an In a later inter came a t huge black bear Until Baree Daree had seen een the otters a at It t play ay In n the lane creek his hta the lie conceptions o of L forests had hod not gone OUO beyond his own kind and such luch creatures as owl owls a and rabbits and small feath feathers feathered red d things The otters had not frightened frighten him ilm because he be still measured thin things hy by y sl size e and Nekk was as not half halt a as II e Ig big as I Kazan Zan But Dut the bent bear was a monster beside which Kazan would d h have ave stood a mere pigmy If It nature was taking this way of Introducing e Baree Haree to the tact fact that there were more mor s i creatures In the forests forest s than han dogs and wolves and owls owl and c cro crayfish sh she was dill driving Ing the point home with n a little tittle more than necessary emphasis For the bear ar w six hundred pounds If it h he e weighed an ounce lIe He was fat and sleek aleck from n a months month's fell feasting sting on fish i Ills shiny Ont coot was like black velvet gaits t In n the moonlight and he walked wit with h n II curious rolling roiling motion with his head bead hun hung low The horror grew rew when he h e stopped broadside In the carpet o of f sand not more morl than ten feet from th the fe e rock under which Baree was woe shivering q us liS I S 'S If It the he had hod the ague It quite evident that o had hod caught scent of him In the tha air farce Baree could hear him sniff sniff could could hen hear r his breathing caught breathing caught the starlight t fl flashing ashing In his reddish brown brott n eyes n ns as s they swung suspiciously toward th the e big boulder It If Baree could have hat e known then that he his he-his his Insignificant t little self self self-nos was making that monster r actually nervous and uneasy he would wool d have hate given ghEn n a yelp of Joy boy For Waka a yoo 00 In spite of his size was somewhat t of a coward when It came come to wolves a And Baree carried currIed the wolf I It at t grew stronger In nose an and I lust Just then titan as If to Increase whatever r I nervousness ner was teas growing gro In to him there ther e I came camo from out of the forest behind d him a n long wailing walling howl With an on audible grunt moved on on Wolves WolveR were pests he tae ar as bated gued They wouldn't stand strand up an and d fight tight They'd snap and yap at ones one's e heels for tor hours at nt a time and we were re always out of the way quicker than a wink wh when 11 one cne turned on them Who What t was the use of hanging banging around where when e there titers were wolves on a beautiful night nigh t like this He lie lumbered on decisively y Baree could hear him lobo splashing hen e fly lly through the writer water of the creek Not ot until then did the flee wolf dog draw a full breath It was almost a gasp But Dut the excitement was not over for forthe the night farce Daree had bond chosen his bed I nt rata a place where the tree animals came down to drink and where they crossed ed I from one ouo of the creek forests to th the theother e other Not long after th the bear had hod ha d disappeared he the heard a heavy beavy crunchIng crunchIng crunch crunch- Ing lag In iii the floe stand sund and hoofs rattling B against stones and a bull moose lull with witha h a huge sweep VElp of antlers passed through the flee open space In n the moonlight Baree stared with popping eyes eyE'S for 1 If f had weighed six hundred d pounds this gigantic creature whose legs were so BO long that It seemed to b be e walking on stilts weighed at nt least twice as ns much A cow moose followed and then a II calf The calf seemed al all legs It was too toe much for Baree Daree an and d he shoved sleeved himself farther and farther r back under the rock until he Ia lay y ry wedged In like a s sardine In a box boa An And d there he lay Iny u until morning g. g I. I When Parse Bane ventured forth from fro frounder m under his rock it at the beginning of th the me e next day he was a much older puppy y than when he met th the 9 young owl in his hla path near the old of d windfall If experience can cnn be mad made e to 10 take the tine place of age Oie he lie had lead age aged ageda e d n a great deal In the last forty eight t hours In fact he had bad passed almost almos t out of He lIe awoke with a anew anew af new and much broader conception ol 01 o othe f the world It was n R big place I Iwas It t was filled with many things of f which li Kazan and Gray Wolf Volf were not th the e most Important The monsters he had has seen on the moonlit plot of sand had has roused In him n new kind of ot caution n ne and tine the one greatest Instinct of beasts heart e the the primal understanding that It 1 Is s the strong that prey upon the weak was wakening swiftly In him As ye yet t he quite |
