� 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 neck lifted as the time came � father wolf pushed the as they called him into the where he sat laughing and playing with some pebbles that in the moonlight never raised his head from his but went on with the monotonous cry look well a muffled roar came up from behind the rocks � the voice of crying the is mine give him to me what have the free people to do with a man s � never even his ears all he said was look well o wolves what have the free people to do with the orders of any save the free people � look well there was a chorus of deep and a young wolf tn his fourth year flung back s question to what have the free people to do with a man s the law of the lays down that if is any dispute as to the right of a to be d by the pack he must be spoken for by members of the pack who are not his for this said e people who speaks � there the book was no answer and mother wolf got ready for what she knew would be her last fight if things came to fighting 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 i 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 law s brothers 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 i 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 killed not half a mile from here if ye will accept the man s according to the law is it difficult there was a of scores of voices saying t what matter he will die in the winter rains he will in the sun what harm can a naked do us � let him run with the pack where is the bull let him be accepted and then came s deep bay crying look well � look well o wolves was still playing with the pebbles and he did not notice when the wolves came and looked at him one by one at last they all went down the hill for the dead bull and only the book and s own wolves were left roared still in the night for he was very angry that had not been handed over to him ay roar well said under his whiskers for the time comes when this naked thing will make thee roar to another tune or i know nothing of man it was well done said men and their are very wise he may be a help in time truly a help in time of need for none can hope to lead the pack forever said said nothing he was thinking of the time that comes to every leader of every pack when his strength goes from him and he gets and till at last he is killed by the wolves and a new leader comes up � to be killed in his turn take him away he said to father wolf and train him as one of the free people and that is how was entered into the wolf pack for the price of a bull and on s good word now you must be content to ten or eleven whole years and only guess at all the wonderful life that led among the wolves because if it were written out it would fill ever so many books he grew up with the though they � w � s brothers of course were grown wolves almost before he was a child and father wolf taught him his business and the meaning of things in the till every rustle in the grass every breath of the warm night air every note of the above his head every scratch of a bat s claws as it for a while in a tree and every splash of every little fish jumping in a pool meant just as much to him as the work of 