Show L fc was adventurers CLUB I HEADLINES FROM THE LIVES W OF PEOPLE LIKE YOURS E L F I 1 r 1 terror rr 9 la tie the gray fanged d aello EVERYBODY tal dorothy dublin of brooklyn N Y wins the place of guior eor today with the story of a terrible experience that once opened to her dad that makes her dad jacob dublin the bs abs newest distinguished adventurer it happened in russia in the town of near the city minsk close by what is now the polish border and it hap bied ed forty eight years ago in the late fall of 1888 when jacob blin was just a little nine year old boy if a grown man had ie e through the adventure that little jake dublin encountered ata a lonely country road that chilly fall evening in 1888 it would pill be a wow of a story but when an adventure of that sort eppens to a nine year old kid well then you have a new eion of the true meaning of the word terror althey AC they had wolves in west russia in those days for that tatter still find wolves in certain parts of russia lay jay then there were plenty of them and more than a it lurked in the forests around those wolves gave little ibe dublin plenty to worry about too for it was his duty to drive I 1 fathers horses to the feeding ground every day and that feeding jund was on the edge of the forest iti 1 wolves harmless during morning hours aj tl K it driving the horses TO the pasture so much as driving them ime me again in in the evening that worried little jake in the mornings e s wolves never bothered anyone but in the evening emboldened by e darkness they had been known to attack grown men the result is as that little jake had to be mighty sure to bring those horses back bm m pasture while it was still light and if it ever happened he was bayed until dusk began to fall well then his dad took over the job bringing those horses home but one day things went wrong out at the pasture and little jake J ablin almost get back he started early enough if he had come back as promptly there have been any danger but trouble started 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 he e other horses to round up it took him another 10 or 15 minutes to J f Q J suddenly a lithe gray form shot out of the woods and sank its teeth to the neck of the first horse it t all the beasts tethered together one behind the other the way s dad had taught him to bring them in and by that time it was night t little jake has choice of two paths almed S the forest to one side of him was ominously still dark treetops amed over him silent against an almost pitch black sky little jake ew it was no hour for a nine year old boy to be out alone he knew tat pt the quicker he got home the better there were two paths he could ake on his way home one path turned into a road that ran along the ige of the forest it was a roundabout way but it was a little safar safer n the other ri 1 the other ran part way through the forest it was more dangerous than the first route but it was shorter and it went Ot straight raight toward his home faced with a choice between these J 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 nell he wanted to get home just as fast as he be could he started down the path leading his long string of horses he ant gone very far when suddenly tara who was the second horse in fe eline line began to get unruly again she bucked and reared the rest K E the horses became nervous and fidgety wondering what was the latter atter with tara now jake moved down the line and tried to calm her it the horse or be calmed something was frightening her bd frightening her mighty badly too 4 little jake long in finding out what was frightening tara suddenly a lithe gray form shot out of the brush brush alongside 3 of the path and sank its teeth into the neck of the first horse 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 coming nearer and nearer when the rest of the pack arrived well then hed be in for it then there would be a general slaughter of his poor animals and he be too would find how it felt to have a wolfs fangs tearing at his throat he stood in the midst of his rearing plunging horses too stiff with right to move a step what good would it do him to run anyway hose chose wolves could pick up a scent and follow it faster than he could run t and then little jake saw it a light far down the path half ob ic cured by trees a torch was flaring then he saw another and another le ie could hear voices now mens voices shouting to him to stay where e was the wolf heard those voices too he slunk off into the forest id d the howls of the advancing pack were stilled in a few moments band of villagers came running up the trail they had started comb ig agthe the forest when little jake get home by nightfall and they ad d arrived just in time to insure his getting home at all released by western newspaper union |