Show FAIRYTALE IV MY 6 THE GRAY WOLF my beautiful children said the mother gray wolf aishe as aha looked at her young and taught them the ways of the great world into which they would soon have to go by themselves for adventures you must heed me while I 1 tell you of hunting and of the ways of escape said mother alother wolf thoy they listened politely but they thought to themselves peor foor old mother she Is growing old she does nut not know as much as we do we are are young and brave and we want wild escapes from dangers we will listen to her because she Is old but we will do as we like but the mother told them of tile the things she had learned through experiences and adventures and she taught them the lessons all wolves must know she thought her children were going to be perfect and that they would not have hake some of the narrow escapes she had had the little wolf who thought he was the wisest of the lot paid no her eyes looked wild attention when his mother told of the danger of the gun which the creature called man always carried 1 I will not be shot by a gun he said to himself 1 I will not let the big men get me no indeed and so lie he boasted to himself little wolf ray my beautiful child said his mother looking at him the gun is very apt to get you be careful do not feel you know it all and the little wolf said 1 I will do as you say dear mother though he still felt how wise he was ile he felt that his mother was nervous too nervous and a little bit foolish now said the mother wolf there are fine things for us to hunt for but the finest we can get in the reah country not the wilds what is more delicious than anything else is a nice juicy lamb iamb or even a tender colt mother wolf smacked her lips and showed her great strong teeth and her eyes looked wild and her face very cruel the children began to feel that their mouths were watering for some som e of the fine food their mother had talked about when can we go hunting they asked tomorrow night said their mother good they all called remember said the mother be careful of guns keep out of danger have sport go hurl hunting ting but try to come away safe for no food is good if we are too wounded to eat e at it and of course it if we should be killed hilled there would never be any wore more hunting and at this the wolves looked a trifle serious and decided they would be careful they did not want to be killed certainly not lite life was far too sweet for that and the thought of nights and nights of hunting ind and of delicious sheep dinners was too nice of course mother alother gray wolf lad warned them even more than she needed need I 1 ed to for tile the wolves are very clever and not apt to get caught they can destroy many sheep and colts and calves ind and still they will not be caught just one more thin thing I 1 said mother iother gray gr fly wolf if you are caught or brought right up to a fight never be a coward and remember your great jaws they are very powerful and they will protect you de ce careful but bo be a fighter this Is for ever everyone yore of you for she had noticed that the little wolf who thought no gun would ever get him had not been paying attention no one had ever been able to get mother 21 cither gray wolf and oh how many had tried for she was very dan dangerous gerbus and the farmers all dreaded the times she came around for she had fought the dogs and woh won every battle no trap nor gun had bad ever captured her nod and still she had a sheep dinner whenever she wanted one tile the following night they went bunting buntin in and the little wolf who nho had felt ho e knew so so enuch ell was killed he had ball boon been foolish find and had gone too near hore the sound ot of a gun had come from the others had gone to smother sheep farm where they hunted and killed nod and ate the rest of the night flight As for mother adother gray wolf she was more victorious than any of them and they realized that sh she was a a wise wolf and a very great huntress |