The Arkansas advocate., 1834-02-28
- 1aalszz seeeaA 6A. F1 FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 2s Isas

'Sr - ssss.v-'s~ '-ss's~-s~ getting fit to eat, Manuel went out to ,bo mountains, to kill bear, who had bean theying in the fields. Just us 4rT.-ras start- i's, i.e brought l:tt.e csc ey sT . 10 ieave hm with me and my wift--.but the enid began 10 cry and begged to DO. I advised Manuel not to take him. but he could not refuse, and was forced to do it.-- He perched him up before him on the sad ale, and set out. About ten miles from this place, there IS q rocky gap in the mountains. aD9ut two miles long, with precpitous s'aes, aud very deep. Just al the mouth oi ms gap, he came on the trail of tic pear' and just as he came to part of the pass where he could ride no longer. he caught sight of the bear ahead of them. rolling alon9 very leisnrelv towards tla ,,n- per per, end ot the gap, where it closed up 10 disinounted, and expecting to Xii inc hear immediately, he tied the head of the horse to. his knee, and sitting the boy down on rock, told him to wait little until he came back. lie then pursued the bear, and soon came up witii hum, but i'll his hurry he shot hum too far back. For a moment or two. the bear was undecided whether to make light or to run, but at length came to the latter determlnation, and rushed off up to the gap, with all his speed. Excited by seeing the blood which his shot had drawn from him, Manuel followed on, forgetting the child II was an hour before he over- took and killed him, and as soon as he be- came collected, he thought of his brother, and hastily returned down the gap. As he approached the bottom of it, he heard n long, loud yell and q faint cry, as Of child in pam or terror. He rushed on, and again came a loud yeIl-mingIed of rage and grief. Ii was the savage cry of the white wolf. Two or three bounds, and he turned a point Of rock, and had full ylew of the scene. A large she wolf was uttoring fear ful cries, and tearing like demon, the bloo- dy corse of his brother, and his horse was madly attempting 10 break his briidie, and snerting loudly with terror Unahle to shoat the animal, he rushed on-but the wolf did not flee before him. Turning upon him with her glafing eyes and bloody teeth, she sprang at him, like panther, with mad, wild howl. Though unprepared for the att tack, Manuel dropped his gun and drew his knife, as she fastened upon his breast and tumbled him upon the rocks. His knife flew from his hand. The sharp fangs of the wolf were fastened in his breast, aud she was only kept from fixing her teeth in his throat, by the blows which he aimed at her head. The blood ran from his breast .ad .nAah annA hi,o when the fhopuht struck him 10 turn upon tho animal, and press her beneath him. He did so, and while she was struggling to escape from under him. his hand fell upon his knife-and he buried it in her heart. There was s,ified cry a shiver-and she was dead-and Manuel arose and staggered to the corse of his bro- ther. He was dead, dead-and by him, lay young wolf, which he had found in pounded with rocks for amusement-till tho dam, attracted by inc cries Of her young, had dealt out terrible retribution on the child.
 All that day Manuel did not return--and that night his horse came home with fhe bridle broken, and the saddle under his bel y. The next morning early, we went out to search for Manuel, and Maria insisted on accompanying us. We found him ly- ing by the body of his brother, and sense less from loss of blood. He was taken up and conveyed home, with hardly any signs of life. During his recovery, Maria tended him like sister-but when after he became able to converse, he sent for Jua- nita--she refused 10 go and see him. From that day to this, he has been what you see him-mad d-mad---and sometimes dan- gerous. The only person whom he seems to know is Maria--and he cares only for her or an American. His whole business <.f .x,bsah he. 1 great numbers. Cold or hot. rain or suns shine, it is the same 10 Manuel. You may hear him and his dogs every day in the year. He lives at the house of La Lupe, the mother of Maria, and you would be as- ! tonshed to see the affection which that good girl has for him. Let him come home at what hour he will, she has his food ready and often has she been to the mountaInsy when he has been gone day or two, to find him, and bring him home. He is known every where, as Manuel the wolf killer, and every body pities him, and uses him well. This, Senor, is the whole of his story.o
 l After the worthy little Medico had fin- ished, 1 recounted to him the conduct ot 1 Manuel the night before, as an explanation of, and excuse for, my curiosity wlth res- pect to him.
 ..yes, yes, said he," you need be under no concern from Manuel--he loves an American as well as myself. But now let us take another traguito of wine, and go to inc AlcaIde's house. Do you know. l left two fellows there, when you sent for me. who were disputing about their fathers pat rimony. He had left them one donkey and one ox-and the Alcalde was just de- ciding that they should cat each animal in two, and each one take his half.''