Show adventurers CLUB HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIKE YO Fl the gray fanged terror HELLO H ELLO EVERYBODY dorothy dublin of brooklyn N Y wins the place ol of honor today with the story of a terrible experience that once happened to her dad that makes her dad jacob dublin the clubs newest distinguished adventurer it happened in russia in the town of near the cit of minsk close by what is now the polish border and it happened forty eight years ago in the late fall of 1888 1883 when jacob D dublin was just a little nine year old boy if a grown man had gone through the adventure that little jake dublin encountered on a lonely country road that chilly fall evening in 1888 it would still be a wow of a story but when an adventure of that sort happens to a nine year old kid well then you have a new definition of the true meaning of the word terror they had wolves in west russia in those days for that matter still find wolves in certain parts of R russia today then there were plenty of them and more than a few lurked in the forests around those wolves gave little lake jake dublin plenty to worry about too for it was his duty to drive his fathers horses to the feeding ground every day and that feeding ground was on the edge of the forest wolves harmless during morning hours it driving the horses TO the 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 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 ever happened he was delayed until dusk began to fall well then his dad took over the job of bringing those horses home but one day things went wrong out at the pasture and little jake dublin almost get back ile be started early enough if he be had bad come back as promptly there have been any danger but trouble started d when he reached the feeding ground and tried to bring the horses home there was a beautiful filly in the herd called tara which was as yet unbroken A couple of times before she had been hard to manage but this afternoon jake do anything with her for almost an hour he 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 1 TO 10 rl w suddenly a lithe gray form shot out of the woods and sank its teeth into the neck of the first 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 lias choice of two 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 nine 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 forest it was a roundabout way but it was a li little tile 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 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 well he wanted to get home just as fast as he could he started down the path leading his long string of horses he gone very far when suddenly tara who was the second horse in the line began 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 be calmed something was frightening her and frightening her mighty badly too little jake long in finding out what was frightening tara suddenly a lithe gray form shot out of the brush alongside of the path and sank its teeth into the neck of the first A wolf forest turns into a shrieking bedlam then in an instant the stillness of the forest was rent by a shrieking bedlam the other horses screamed and struggled while the first horse blood gushing from his throat was pulled down by the wolf so far the wolf had paid no attention to little jake he 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 bear their weird howling bowling coming nearer and nearer when the rest of the pack arrived well then hen hed be in for it then there would be a i i general slaughter of his poor animals and he too would find how it felt to have a wolfs tangs fangs tearing at his throat he stood in the midst of his rearing plunging horses too stilt stiff with fright to move a step what good would it do him to run anyway those wolves could pick up a scent and follow it faster than he could run and then little jake saw it a light far down the path half obscured by trees a torch was flaring then he saw another and an another otherl ile he could hear voices now mens voices shouting to him to stay where lie he was the wolf heard those voices too he slunk off into th the e forest and the howls of the advancing pack were stilled in a few moments a band of villagers came running up the trail they had started combing the forest when little jake get home by nightfall and they had arrived just in time to insure his getting home at all released by western newspaper union |