hungry yet he was the book not afraid look he has pushed one of my to one side already and that lame butcher would have killed him and would have run off to the while the villagers here hunted through all our in revenge keep him assuredly i will keep him lie still little o thou � for the i will call thee � the time will come when thou wilt hunt as he has hunted thee but what will our pack say said father wolf the law of the lays down very clearly that any wolf may when he withdraw from the pack he belongs to but as soon as his are old enough to stand on their feet he must bring them to the pack council which is generally held once a month at full moon in order that the other wolves may identify them after that inspection the are free to run where they please and until they have killed their first buck no excuse is accepted if a grown wolf of the pack one of them the punishment is death where the murderer can be found and if you think for a minute you will see that this must be so father wolf waited till his could run a little and then on the night of the pack meeting brothers took them and and mother wolf to the council rock � a covered with stones and where a hundred wolves could hide the great gray lone wolf who led all the pack by strength and cunning lay out at full length on his rock and below him sat forty or � wolves of every size and color from who could handle a buck alone p to young black three year who thought they could the lone wolf had led them for a year now he had fallen twice into a wolf trap in his youth and once he had been beaten and left for dead so he knew the manners and customs of men there was very little talking at the rock the tumbled over one another in the of the circle where their mothers and fathers sat and now and again a senior wolf would go quietly up to a look at him carefully and return to his place on noiseless feet sometimes a mother would push her far out into the moonlight to be sure that he had not been overlooked from his rock would cry ye know the law � ye know the law look well o wolves and the anxious mothers would take up the call look � look well o wolves at last � and mother wolf s neck lifted as the time came � father wolf pushed i the book the as they called him into the where he sat laughing and playing j some pebbles that in the never raised his head from his but went on with the monotonous cry well a muffled roar came up from behind the rocks � the voice of crying ti is mine give him to me what have free people to do with a man s never even his ears all said was look well o wolves what have the free people to do with the orders of save the free people look well there was a chorus of deep and a young wolf in his fourth year flung back s question to what have the people to do with a man s now the law of the lays down that if there is any dispute as to the right of a to be accepted by the pack he must be spoken for by at least two members of the pack who are not his father and mother who speaks for this said among the free people who speaks there was no answer and mother wolf got ready for what she knew would be her last fight if things came to fighting brothers then the only other creature who is allowed at the pack council � the sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf the law of the old who can come and go where he pleases because he eats only nuts and roots and honey � rose up on his hind quarters and the man s � the man s he said speak for the man s there is no harm in a man s i have no gift of words but i speak the truth let him run with the pack and be entered with the others i myself will teach him we need yet another said has spoken and he is our teacher for the young who speaks besides a black shadow dropped down into the circle it was the black black all over but with the showing up in certain lights like the pattern of watered silk everybody knew and nobody cared to cross his path for he was as cunning as as bold as the wild and as reckless as the wounded elephant but he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree and a skin softer than down o and ye the free people he i have no right in your assembly but the book the law of the says that if there is a doubt which is not a killing matter in regard to a new the life of that may be bought at a price and the law does not say who may or may not pay that price am i right good good said the young wolves who are always hungry listen to the can be bought for a price it is the law knowing that i have no right to speak here i ask your leave speak then cried twenty voices to kill a naked is shame besides he may make better sport for you when he is grown has spoken in his behalf now to s word i will add one bull and a fat one newly 