and later a that crushed him down or rolled him over and over with swift calculating stroke thus he learned hurt and on top of it he learned to avoid hurt first by not the risk of it and second when he had incurred the risk by by retreating these were conscious actions and were the results white of his first npon the world before that he had from hurt as he had crawled toward the light after that he from hurt he knew that it was he was a fierce little so were his brothers and sisters it was to be expected he was a animal he came of a breed of and meat his father and mother lived wholly upon meat the milk he had sucked with his first flickering life was milk transformed directly from meat and now at a month old when his eyes had been open for but a week he was beginning himself to eat meat � meat half by the she wolf and for the five growing that already made too great demand upon her breast but he was further the of the litter he could make a louder growl than any of them his tiny were much more terrible than theirs it was he that first learned the trick of rolling a fellow over with a cunning stroke and it was he that first another by the ear and pulled and and growled through jaws and certainly it was he that caused the mother the most trouble in keeping her litter from the mouth of the cave the fascination of the light for the gray increased from day to day he was the gray parting on yard long adventures toward the cave s entrance and as perpetually being driven back only he did not know it for an entrance he did not know anything about � passages whereby one goes from one place to another place he did not know any other place much less of a way to get there so to him the entrance of the cave was a wall � a wall of light as the sun was to the outside this wall was to him the sun of his world it attracted him as a candle a he was always striving to attain it the life that was so swiftly within him urged him continually toward the wall of light the life that was within him knew that it was the one way out the way he was to tread but he himself did not know anything about it he did not know there was any outside at all there was one strange thing about this wall of light his father he had already come to recognize his father as the one other in the world a creature like his mother who slept near the light and was a of meat � his father had a way of walking right into the white far wall and disappearing the gray could not understand this though never permitted by his mother to approach that wall he had approached the other walls and encountered hard on the end of his tender nose this hurt and after several such e white he left the walls alone without thinking about it he accepted this disappearing into the wall as a peculiarity of his father as milk and half meat were peculiarities of his mother in fact the gray was not given to thinking � at least to the kind of thinking customary of men his brain worked in dim ways yet his were as sharp and distinct those achieved by men he had a method of accepting things without the why and wherefore in reality this was the act of he was never disturbed over why a thing happened how it happened was for him thus when he had his nose on the back wall a few times he accepted that he would not disappear into walls in the same way he accepted that his father could disappear into walls but he was not in the least disturbed by desire to find out the reason for the between his father and himself logic and were no part of his mental make up like most creatures of the wild he early experienced famine there came a time when not only did the meat supply cease but the milk no longer came from his mother s breast at first the and cried but for the most part they slept it was not long before they were reduced to a of hunger there were no more and no more tiny nor attempts at growl the gray ing while the adventures toward the far white wall ceased altogether the slept while the life that was in them and died down one eye was desperate he ranged far and wide and slept but little in the that had now become cheerless and miserable the she wolf too left her litter and went ont in search of meat in the first days after the birth of the one eye had several times back to the indian camp and robbed the rabbit but with the melting of the snow and the opening of the streams the indian camp had moved away and that source of supply was closed to him when the gray came back to life and again took interest in the far white wall he found that the population of his world had been reduced only one sister remained to him the rest were gone as he grew stronger he found himself compelled to play alone for the sister no longer lifted her head nor moved about his little body rounded out with the meat he now ate but the food had come too late for her she slept a tiny skeleton flung round with skin in which the flame lower and lower and at last went out then there came a time when the gray no longer 