Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1862-12-23
IFror the American ns..ssssr.l
ARrave Roy

When was q boy lived amspc the
Green Mountains OF Vermont; in The win.
ter making snow forts and sliding DOVE
tae street h'lis, and in summer and autumn
wandering over the mountains looking AZ
ter the beautiful trout from the brooke
bnt my brother 10 Wisconsin wrote TO me
TO come 10 him. and | went. Our house
was on what was then called "Baxters Prss
re. The prairie was covered with fiovers
and the many clear lakes around aboun-
ded IN fish aud ducks; bat our principal
food was Doe cake and salt pork.
One Of cur neighb0rs had no meat for n
long time, and getting out Of powder thew
bad no game; so one day they sent up their
eldest son. hey about ten years cid, for a
piece OF pork. As be was carrying il home
wards, and going through a piece Of voods
by "SilEer Lake" he heard The rustliue Of
the leaves in thleket by the road side
lie stopped end listensd-all was STILL
Again be pushed forward, again the leaves
rustled behind him and be thcurbt he
heard a stealthy step. Again he stopped
cS1sythi,s vas stii exeent The eeatle dab
81 TIE waves upon tho pebblv beach. and
the rapid beating Of his own heart. He
dreaded 10 90 forward, and hs dared nor
stay, Tor he saw night was opproachiue.
when the woods always echoed with fhs
ho~l OF the hungry wolf, ahd the sayaes
bear and steslhy eatsmOunts came on,
from their dens. So picking up a club. he
again started bnmeward Again the steal.
thy step behind him, nearer aud nearer
until he saw q gauBt and savage wolf
creeping after him and he was hurried on
still clinging to bis meat, the wolf was
coming nearer aud nearer. and might a
Sny moment spring upon him.
Still the boy, though ne trembled In
every limb, did not lose his presence If
mind. lie remembered having he s.Ssbis
father say that if any one faced wild AMI
NAL and looked 1t square in the eve. ID
would not dare u attack him. lie turned
around and faced the hungry wolf, end
commenced walking backwards towards
home, still long mile and half away.-
As the woods grew darker the wolf came
nearer, chewing his white teeth, with the
hair bristling upon his back. The cours.
geous boy knew that IF he gave up biz
piece OF pork he was safe, aud could run
home unmolested, but be knew there vsr.
hungry ones at home awaiting his return.
As the wolf came near, be hit him SQUARE
upon the head with a stone, when with an
Gngry "yelp," the wols spraug into the
thicket and set up long and dismal howl.
The boy listened TO hear il there we're an
swering bowls, aud hearing none, be took
courage; bat soon the savage beast, mad
dened by bauger, came at him aPaip-
/ With his club be gave him a well directed
blow between the eyes, which sent him
bowling back again into the tnisket-
| Again and again was the contest renewed /:
many times did the savage yet eovardly
animal make spring at the lad and many
times did the brave boy beat him of, until
at last he came near the log cabin Of his
parents, when the disss pointed wolf with
a long and wailing howl, dashed away into
the woods. Trembling with excitement,
and wet with pers pirstion, the boy drop
ped the meat upon tie floor, crying
Mother, I've got IT," and fell exhausted al
his