Show BAREE RE Son of Kazan If HOMESICK BAREE DARES Part Synopsis ts Part wolf part dog doer when two months old Bares Baree has baa IU his first meeting with on an ana n a n a Demy e to m y 7 young youn owl Fighting hard bard t the he antagonists an an- are suddenly plunged into a swollen creek Badly buffeted buffeted feted and half drowned Baree Baroe Is la finally nally flung flung- on the bank but the water has haa destroyed his hIli sense of direction and he is le lost lonely and hungry Chapter Continued lI 3 Baree was fully three quarters of amile amile a n mile from the windfall when he came cameto cameto cameto to a point where the creek split spIlt Itself Into two channels He had but one choice to follow the follow the stream that flowed a little south and east This stream did not run swiftly It was not filled with shimmering rimes riffles and rocks tocks about which the water sang and foamed roamed It grew ew black like the forest It t was still and deep Without knowing knowIng know know- Ing It St Baree Daroe was burying himself deeper and deeper Into ol old trapping grounds Since had died they had lain undisturbed ex except pt for the wolves Gra Gray Wolf Volf and andI I Kazan azan had not hunted on this side of the waterway waterway and and the wolves themselves them them- selves preferred the more open country for the chase Suddenly Baree found himself at the edge dge of a a. deep dark pool In which the water lay still as oil all and his heart nearly Jumped out of his body when a n treat great sleek shining creature sprang out from almost under his nose and landed with a tremendous splash In Inthe Inthe inthe the center of It It was the otter The otter had not heard Baree and andIn andIn andIn In another moment his wife came sailing salling out of a patch of gloom loom and behind het came three tittle otters leaving behind them four wakes in the oll oily looking water water What happened after that made Baree Daree forget for a few minutes that he was lost had disappeared disappeared disappeared under the surface and now he came up directly under his unsuspecting ln lag ing mate with a force that lifted her half out of the water Instantly he was gone again and took after him fiercely To Baree It did not look like play Two of the baby otters had pitched on the third which seemed to be fighting desperately The chill and ache went out of Baree's Daree's body His blood ran excitedly he forgot forgot forgot for for- got himself dad and let out a bark In a alash lash flash the otters disappeared For several several sev sev- eral minutes the water In the pool continued con con- tinned to rock and and I heave eav and that was all After a little Baree drew himself back into the bushes and went on It was about three o'clock in the afternoon and the sun should still have ha been well up In the sl sky But Dm It f was growing darker steadily and the ther strangeness and fear of It all lent r greater speed to Baree's legs He L h I I I I stopped every little while to listen and at one of these intervals he heard hearda a n sound that drew from him a responsive responsive re re- re- re and Joyous whine It was a distant howl howl howl-a a wolfs wolf's howl straIght howl straight ahead of at him Dar Baree e was not thinking of wolves but of Kazan and he ran through the gloom of the forest until he was winded Then he be stopped and listened a long time The wolf howl did not come again Instead of It there rolled up from the west a deep and thunderous rumble Through the treetops there flashed a vivid streak of lightning A moaning whisper of wind rode In advance ance of at the storm the thunder seemed searching Baree out where he stood shivering under a canopy of great spruce This was his second storm The first had frightened him terribly and he had crawled f far r back Into the shelter of the windfall The best he could find now was a hollow hollow hollow hol hol- low under a big root and into this he slunk crying softly It was a babyish babyish baby baby- ish cry cry for his mother for home for warmth for something soft and protecting to nestle up to and as ashe ashe ashe he cr cried ed the storm burst over the forest Barse Baree e had never before heard so much noise and he he- had never ne seen the lI lightning play In such sheets of fire firo as when this June deluge d. d luge fell It seemed d at times as though the whole world were a aflame ame and the earth seemed to shake and roll under the crashes of the thunder He ceased his his crying and made himself as small as ashe as ashe ashe he could under the root which protected pro I him partly from the terrific beat bent of the rain which came down doun through the treetops In a flood It was vas so 59 black that except when the lightning ripped great holes In the gloom he lie could not see the spruce spruce- trunks twenty feet away Twice that distance from Baree there was a huge dead stu stub that stood out like a ghost each time the fires swept the sky as asIf asIt asif If It defying the flaming hands up there thereto to strike strike and and strike at last one of them did I 1 A bluish tongue of snapping snap snap- ping flame ran down the old stub I and as It touched the earth there I came a tremendous explosion above the treetops The massive stub shivered shivered shivered shiv shiv- ered end And then It broke asunder as 1 If cloven en by a gigantic ax It crashed down so close to Baree Duree that earth and ticks sticks flew about aim nim and he let out outa a wild yelp of at terror as he lie tried to crowd himself deeper Into the shallow I hole bole under the root With Witt the destruction of the old stub stube fth Ithe ithe e thunder and lightning seemed to have vented th their lr malevolence olence The thunder passed on ea into tOtO the south and east like the rolling of ten thousand heavy heavy cartwheels over the roofs roots of the forest and the U th e lightning went with It IL By JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD C. 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Co S The rain roin fell steadily The hole In which he had taken shelter was soppy He was drenched his teeth chattered as he waited for the next thing to happen It was wal a long wait walt When the rain stopped and the sky cleared It was night Through the tops of the trees Baree could have seen the stars If It he had poked out his head hend and looked upward But he clung to his hole bole Hour after hour pas passed d. d Exhausted half drowned footsore and hungry he did not move At last he fell into a troubled sleep a sleep in which every now and then he cried softly and forlornly forlornly forlornly for for- for his mother When he ventured ventured ven ven- out from under the root It was morning and the sun was shining At first Baree could hardly stand His legs were cramped every bone In his body seemed out of Joint his ear was stiff stitt where the Ule blood had oozed out of It and hardened an- an an when he tried to wrinkle his wounded nose he gave a sharp yap of pain If such a athing athing athing thing were possible he looked even worse than he felt His hair had dried In muddy patches he was dirt dirt- stained from tram end to end and where yesterday he had been plump and shiny he was now v as thin and wretched as misfortune could possibly make him And he was hungry He had never before known what It meant to be really hungry When he went on continuing In the direction he had been following yesterday yesterday yester yester- da day he slunk along In a disheartened sort of way His head and ears were no longer alert and hl his curiosity was gone He was not only stomach hun gry mother-hunger mother rose above his physical yearning for something to eat He wanted his mother as he had never wanted her before In his life ute He wanted to snuggle his shivering little body close up to her and feel the warm caressing of her tongue and listen Usten to the mothering whine of her voice And he wanted Kazan and the tile theold theold old windfall and that big blue spot that was In the sky right over It While he followed again along the edge of the creek he whimpered for them as a child might night grieve The Th forest grew more open after a time and this cheered him up a little Also the warmth of the sun was takIng taking taking tak tak- ing the ache out of his body He grew hungrier and hungrier He had depended depended depended de de- entirely on Kazan and Gray GrayWolf GrayWolf GrayWolf Wolf for food His parents had In some ways made a great baby of 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 sUck close to her though more than once he had been filled with a great yearning to follow his father Nature Nature Nature Na Na- ture was hard at work trying to overcome overcome overcome over over- come Its handicap now It was struggling struggling gling to Impress on Baree Daree that the time had nau now come when ne he must seek his own food The f fact ct Impinged Impinged impinged Im Im- im- im pinged Itself upon him slowly but steadily and he began to think of at the three or four shellfish he had caught and devoured on the stony creek creek bar bar near the windfall He Helso also remembered remembered remembered the open clam shell he had bad found and the lusciousness of the tender tender tender ten ten- der morsel Inside It A new excitement excitement excitement excite excite- ment began to possess possess him He lIe became became became be be- came all at once a hunter With the thinning out of the forest the creek grew more shallow It ran over bars of at sand and stones and Baree Daree began to nose along the edge of at these thes For a long time he lie had no success The few crayfish that he saw were exceedingly lively ely and elusive and Sand all the shells clam were shut so tight that even Kazan's powerful Jaws would Have e had difficulty In smashing them It was almost noon when he caught his bis first cra crayfish fish about as big bigas bigas bigas as a mans man's forefinger He devoured It ravenously The taste of food gave him fresh courage conrage lIe He caught two more crayfish during the afternoon It was almost dusk when he stirred ayoung a ayoung young oung rabbit out from under a cover of grass If It he had been a month month older he lie could have caught It He lie was still sun very ery hungry for three crayfish cray cray- fish scattered fish scattered through the day had day had hadnot not done much to fill fin the emptiness that was growing steadily In him With the approach of ot night Baree's Daree's fears and great loneliness returned Before the day had quite ne go-ne gone he found himself a shelter under a big rock where there was a warm soft bed of or sand t Since his fight with he lie had traveled a n long distance and the rock under which he made malIe his bed this night was at least eight ht or nine miles mlles from the windfall It was in the open of the creek bottom with the dark forest of spruce and cedars close on either cither r side and when the moon rose rasp and the stars filled the sky Barco Darco could look out and see the water of at the stream shimmering In a aglow aglow aglow glow almost as bright as all day Directly Directly Di Di- in front of him running to the waters water's edge was a broad carpet of white sand Across this sand half an hour later came a huge black bear Until Baree had seen the otters at play In the tho creek his conceptions of the forests had not gone beyond his own o kind and such creatures as owls and rabbits and small feathered things The otters had not frightened him because he still sUlI measured things by size and was not half halt aebig as ae big as Kazan But the bear was a ft monster beside which Kazan would have stood a mere pigmy If nature was WM taking this way of Introducing Baree to the fact that there were more Important creatures In the forests forest than dogs and wolves and owls and cra crayfish fish she was driving the point home with a little more than necessary emphasis For the bear weighed six hundred pounds l If he weighed an ounce He was fat and sleek from a months month's feasting on fish His shiny coat was like black velvet In the moonlight and he walked with witha a curious rolling motion with his head hung low The horror grew when he ho stopped broadside in the carpet of sand not more than ten feet from the rock under which Baree Daree was shivering as If he had the ague It was quite evident that had caught scent of at him In the air Baree could hear him sniff could sniff could hear his breathing caught breathing caught the starlight flashing In his reddish-brown reddish eyes as they swung suspiciously toward the big boulder If Baree could have known then that he hIs he-hIs his Insignificant little self was self was making that monster actually nervous and uneasy he would have given a n yelp of Joy For Waka Waka- yoo In spite of at his size was somewhat of at a coward wh when n It came to wolves And Baree carried the wolf It grew stronger In nose and Just then as l If to Increase whatever nervousness was growing In him there came from out of the forest behind him a long walling wailing howl With an audible grunt I moved on Wolves were pests he ar nr- ar- ar gued Th They y wouldn't stand up and fight They'd snap and yap at ones one's heels for hours at a time and were I always out of the way quicker than a wink when one turned on them What was the use of ot hanging around where there were wolves on a beautiful night like tills this He ITe lumbered on decisively Baree Daree could hear him splashing heavily heavily ily lly through the water of the creek Not No until then did the wolf dog draw a full breath It was almost a gasp But Dut the excitement was not over for forthe forthe forthe the night ht Baree Darce had chosen his bed bedat bedat bedat at a place where the animals came down to drink and where they crossed from one of the creek forests to the other Not long after the bear benr had disappeared he heard a heavy crunchIng crunchIng crunching crunch- crunch Ing In the sand and hoofs rattling against ston stones s and a bull moose with a huge sweep of or antlers passed through the open space In the moonlight Baree Daree stared with popping e eyes es for tor If It had weighed six sU hundred pounds this gigantic creature whose legs were so long that It seemed to be walking on stilts weighed at least twice as much A cow moose followed and then a calf The cal calf seemed all nIl legs It was too much for Baree Daree and he shoved himself farther and farther back under the rock until he lay wedged In like e a sardine In a n box And there he lay until morning When Baree ventured forth from under his rock tt tot the beginning of the nex next day he was a much older puppy than when he met the young owl In his path near the old windfall If experience nce can be made to take the place pInce of age he lie had aged ageda a great deal Mal in the last lat forty-eight forty hours In fact he ho had passed almost out of He ITe awoke with a anew anew anew new and much broader conception o ot of the world It was a big place It was filled filed with many things of which I Kazan and Gray Wolf were not the most Important The monsters he had seen on the moonlit plot of sand had roused In him a new kind of caution m and d the one greatest Instinct of of beasts the the primal un understanding that It Is 18 the strong that prey upon upon the weak weak- was wakening swiftly in him As yet yet he quite quite- naturally measured brute force and the menace of things by size alone Thus the bear was more terrible ter than n Kazan and the moose walmore wa war more more terrible than the b bear ar i Baree ha has now discovered that l lIts lIt's Its It's a big world with many ad I ventures And hes he's learning g fast I I ITO I TO BE nu CONTINUED |