Show BAREE AREE B I 1 S son LL of if AM ear kazan W WARY BEAVER synopsis Syn opala part wolf part dog when two wo months old baree baaree has ha his hi first matlak with an enemy young owl fighting hard the th antagonists are suddenly denly plunged into IL a swoll swollen creek badly buffeted ir ancha and halt drowned daree barea to la anally flung dung on the bank but the water has bai destroyed dei troyed his hl eni of imenes direction and he in loit ion lonely and hungry for many days day his life lf aa 0 one 6 or of fear ear and distress he n meta 1 a t 8 var vartoui IOUs c creature rea tures of the wild wl ld and goei coos through a thun thunderstorm derst rm he li Is learning more and d more lie he strays into the trapp trapping off birr ground ands of pierrot and Nope ass wounds wound barte bar with a rifle but he as e capes chapter 11 II continued 6 the wings made a great erect tumult about baree baaree but they did not hurt him he be burled buried ills his fangs deeper his snarls rose more fiercely as he got the taste of blood and through him there surged more hotly the desire to kill this monster of the night as though in the death of this creature he had the opportunity 0 of f avenging himself for or all the hurts and hardships that had befallen him since he be lost hla his mother tind had never felt n great fear until now the lynx had snapped at him but once and was gone leuv leav ing him crippled but the lynx had not snarled in that feh way find and it had not hung on A thousand and one nights hall had listened to the wolf howl instinct had ald told hini lalni what it meant ile he had bad seen tile lie packs pass swiftly through the night ond and always when y passed he had kept in the deepest shallows shadows to him blin as for all other wild things the wolf howl stood mood for death but until now with barbes flings fangs burled in ills his leg he ila had never sensed fully the wolf fear it had find taken it years to enter into hla his slow stupid head but now that it was there it possessed him a as no uther other thing had ever eer possessed hini him in in all ills life suddenly ceased his big beating anti and loun launched clied himself upward like luige huge fans fang his powerful wings churned the air and bare felt hini him self lifted suddenly from the earth still he held on and in it a moment both bird find and beast nil fell back with a thud tried tied again this time he be wits was more successful and lie rose fully six feet into the air with w ath ilare bare they fell again A third time the old it d outlaw fought to wing himself free of barbes baree s grip and then hen exhausted lie he lay with his giant wings outspread hissing and d irking cracking his bill under those wings barbes mind worked with the swift instincts of the killer suddenly he changed his hold burying his fangs into the under part of boh body they sank into three inches of feathers swift ns as daree had been was equally swift to take advantage adan tige of his opportunity in an instant lie had swooped upward there was a jerk a rending of feathers from flesh and baree baaree was alone on the field of battle baree baaree had bad not killed but he had bad conquered his first great day or night had bad come the world was filled with a new promise for him as vast as th the night itself and after a moment he sat back on his haunches miffing the air for his benten beaten enemy and then as it if defying the feathered monster to come back and fight to the end he pointed his sharp little muzzle to the stars star and sent forth his first babyish wolf howl into the night chapter ill II 11 barbes baree fight with wits was good medicine for him it not only gave him great confidence in himself but it also cleared the fever of ugliness from his blood ile he no longer snapped and snarled gnarled at tags th digs as lie he went on through the night his wound was waa much less painful the next day and by nightfall he scarcely had noticed it at all since his almost tragic end at the hands of Ne lie he had been traveling la a general northeasterly direction follow ing instinctively the run of the water ways but his progress had been slow and when darkness came cam e again he was not more than eight or ten miles from the hole into which he be had bad fallen after the willow bad shot him AU sounds now held a meaning for baree baaree swiftly he was waa coming into his bis knowledge of the wilderness ilia his eyes gleamed his blood thrilled for many minutes at a time he scarcely moved but of all the sounds that came to him the wolf cry thrilled him oost again and again he listened to it at times it was far away so far that it was like it a whisper dying away almost before it reached him and then agn again in it would come to him full throated hot with the breath of 0 the chase calling him to the red thrill of the hunt to the wild orgy of torn flesh and running blood calling calling calling that was it calling him to his own kin to the hone bone of his bone and the flesh of his flesh sh to the wild fierce hunting packs of his mothers tribe 1 it was gray WO wolfs ifs is voice seek ing him in the night gray wolf alfi mood blood inviting him to the Brother brotherhood hooI of the pack baaree baree trembled as an he listened in da ate throat he whined softly he edged 9 the sheer face of a rock rocil ile he anted to go nature was wa urging hin to io go 0 o but the call of the wild wa against odds for in him by JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD 4 doubleday P go al co service was the dog with its generations of 01 subdued and sleeping instincts and all that night the dog in him kept baree baaree to the top of tits ills rock next morn morning hair unree found many crawfish along the creek anil and he feasted on their succulent flesh until he felt that he would never be hungry again nothing had find tasted quite so BO good since he had eaten the partridge of which he had bad robbed the ermine in the middle of the afternoon baree baaree came into a part cart of the forest that was very quiet and very peaceful the creek had deepened in places its banks swept out until they formed small ponds twice he made considerable detours to get around these ponds ile he traveled very quietly listening and watching not since the ill fated day he had left the old windfall had he felt quite so much at home as now it seemed to him that at last he was treading country which lie he knew and w where here he would end friends perhaps this was another ail miracle mystery of instinct of nature for he fie was lit in old beaver booths domain it was here that tits father and mother hod had huntee hunted in the days before lie he was w as born it was not for far front from here tint that kaan and beaver tooth had bud fought that mighty duel andor water from which kazan had escaped with ills life without another breath to lose loe lo e the forest trew grew deeper it was wonderful there was nus no undergrowth and amil traveling under the trees was like being in a vast mystery filled cavern through tile the rout roof of bihli tile the light of itty broke softly li here anti and there by gulden golden splashes of the sun por for a mile ilaree made ills way quietly through this forest ile he saw nothing I 1 know how to play but a few winged flit tings of birds there was almost no sound then h came to a still larger pond around this pond there was as a thick growth of alders and willows willous the larger trees had thinned out lie he saw the glimmer of afternoon sunlight on the water find and then nil all at once he fie heard life there had been flaw few changes chunges in reaver beaver booths colony since the lays days of if ills his fell feud with kazan and the others old beaver tooth was still older lie he was flitter ile he slept a great deal and perhaps he be wits was less cautious ile he was dobing doing on nn tile the great roud mud and brushwood dam of walh lie hall had been engineer in chief when badelt baree came out softly on a high bank thirty or forty feet away anway so noiseless had baree baaree been that flint none of the beavers had seen or lic ikird ird hint him ile he squatted himself flat on till ills belly hidden behind it a tuft of gr grass garnr nr and with eager interest watched every movement beaver tooth was rousing himself lie he stood on ills his short legs legg for a mon moment lent then he tilted himself up on ills his brond flat tall like a soldier at attention and with a sudden whistle lived dived into the pond with a great splash in another moment it se med to baree baaree that lint tile the pond ans alive with genvera heads and bodies appeared and disappeared rushing tills this way and that through the witter in a manner that and puzzled him it was the colons col onys evening frolic tas tails hit the water like flat hoards boards odd whis clings rose above the splashing and then as suddenly as it hod had begun the play came to an end there were probably twenty beavers not counting the young and as if gilded by A 6 common signal something which baree baaree had not heard they became so quiet that hardly a sound could be heard in the pond A few of thern them sank under the water anti and disappeared entirely but roost most of them baree baaree could As they drew themselves out on shore the beavers lost no time in getting at their labor and baree baaree wat matched c hed and listened without so much its as rustling it a blade of the grass in which he be was concealed lie he was trying I 1 to 0 under stand ile he war striving to ill place ace these curious and i king creatures in his knowledge of things and then close under tinder him not more than ten feet from where he lay liay he saw something that almost gave voice to the puppyish longing for companion ship that was in him down there on a clean strip of tit tin shore that rose quit out of the toft soft roud mud of the be pond waddled tat fat little and three of hla his playmates was wa just about w axe perhaps a week or two younger but he we w fully as hemy heavy aud and almost as wide as an he wait wa long nature can produce no four footed creature that is more lovable than a baby beaver unless it is a baby bear and would have taken first prize at any beaver baby show in the world ills his three companions were a bit stu smaller aller they came calne waddling from behind a low willow making queer little chuckling noises aises their little flat fiat tails drug dragging gijin like tiny sledges behind them they were fat and furry rod and mighty friendly looking to baaree baree and tits hla heart beat a sudden swift of joy but babeo did not move lie he scarcely breathed and then suddenly turned on one of ills ilia pl playmates mates and bowled bottled him over instantly the other two were on and the tour four little beavers bearers rolled over and over kicking with their short feet fed and with their tails and nil fill the time e emitting wing soft little squeaking arlea baaree baree knew that it was not fight but frolic lie ile rose up on his feet ito ita forgot where he be was forgot everything in the world but those playing furry balls for the moment alt all the hard training nature had been giving him was lost ile he wits was no longer a fligh fighter tor no longer a hunter no longer if a seeker litter food foa lie he was w as a puppy fauld in eflin there rose a lesire leire that lint win greater than hunger lie he wanted 1 0 o I go down eliere with amish and Ms little chums ani roll ril 8 and nd plin play ife H wanted to 11 tell 11 them oen t it 1 z it a tiling thing were re posillipo tint that ti till luid alost lost ills mother and an 1 his ho home file and 11 that lie he tall hilt hen been having a might hard time of it anti and that lint lie would like to stay midi them and their in tinH others liers and fathers if they t rare care in lilb ills thront there came the least bit of a whine hine it was uns so low that hut anti lila ilia lid did not lica bear it they HIM wire tremendously huty softly beree took ills his first step to ward them find then tan and nl fit last lie stood on tile lie narrow strip ol of 1 shore within linof a dozen feet of them thein ills his slinky little ears cars afi pitched for ward find tie lie was wiggling hit his tall ns as i I 1 fast its as fie could find every muscle tincle ra lit in ills his body wits trembling tn in anticipation it vla 5 inn flint saw him and an afien ills his fat I 1 little e bodi became suddenly as an motionless as n a stone I 1 hello said baaree baree wiggling hl whole body and talking ns as plainly a a bunian tongue old talk do you care if I 1 play with you ou made no response ills three now had and their eyes on ba tee they make a move ioe they looked stunned tinned st four pairs of staring wondering eyes es were fixed on mhd ali stranger I 1 baree baaree made another effort 11 groveled on his while his tit tall find hind legs continued to wiggle and with a sniff he grabbed a bit of stick between tits lili teeth come on let me in he be urged 1 I 1 know how to play I 1 ile he tossed the stick in the air na as M H to prove proe what lie he was saying and gavit a little yup yap and his brothers were 1114 dummies and then of a sudden some one on saw unree it was n big beaver swim wag down the pond with a sapling timber for the new pond that was onder way instantly he loosed lifs hold and faced the lie shore and then like the report of a rifle there anine th ill crack of ills his big flat tail ou the water tile lie beavers signal of dunger danger that ou on if n quiet night cun can be heard half a mill away awai danger r it warned danger dan ger danger scarcely Sc arcel had the signal gone forth when tails were cracking in all dirac 1 ions in the pond in the hidden CR ca rials nali in the thick willows and alders to and his companions thea said run for your lives baree baaree stood rigid and onlest lesi now in amazement he watched th IN four little beavers plunge into the and disappear lie he heard the i of other anti and heavier heavin r bodies striking the water and then there followed a strange and disquieting silence softly I 1 enree whined and ills hig whine was al ai most a sobbing cry why hall had antish and his little mates run away from him blin A great loneliness swept over him I 1 loneliness greater even than that ol of his first night iway from his mother lie he had not found comradeship ant au ills his heart was very sad poor barel bareal even the th playful little beaver are afraid of him I 1 TO HE BE CONTINUED CONTINUE 0 |