The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-03-22

ground. but evidently he sees nothing to
alarm him, when suddenly he exclaims
"Hah ~ and gives the reins that he has
been holding in his hand shake that
seems to send thrill through the horses,
who have also seen or heard something that
they do not like, for they throw back
their ears, and the thick spume flakes fly
from their mouths as they chafe at the
bits.
Isabella, who has been DOING, sudden
ly opens her eyes at the jerk which has
been given to the sledge, and in accents
of terror exclaims: "What are those eyes
amongst the trees on the hill ?"
No need to ask q second time, as the
hoarse howlings, which had been but
mutterings mingling with the sighing of
the wind through the leafess branches,
now swell into loud chorus, and pack
of wolves dash from tie trees after the
sledge and its inmates, and then ensued
q race for life indeed The horses were
as sensible of the danger as their human
freight, and plunged along with all the
speed of thoroughbred animals. At
tracted by the cry of the child and the
alarming shrek Of its mother, the fierce
pursuers came up on that side of the
sledge nearest to them, and seemed de-
termined to leap into it. They were
close alongside, their hot breath could
could almost be felt, while the glare of
their fierce-looking eyes were terrifying.
At this moment Paulo pulled out his re-
volver and fired, and the one nearest the
side rolled over and bit the dust in his
death agonies, but the others, nothing
daunted, leaped over the body of their
dying comrade and kept up the chase.
Harry leveled his rifle and another beast
rolled over. Just then one who appeared
to be the leader sprang Mt the nearest
horse and hung on his side, while the
affrighted animal plunged and struggled
to such degree as-to threaten the over
throw of the sledge. To reload and fire
was for the experienced hunter but the
work of moment, and the horse was
freed from his assailant.
Paulo had not been idle. His revol-
vers had told more than once upon the
hungry pack, but they were pressing
closer and closer, and it seemed as
though they must be eventually sacri-
feed to the rapacity of the wolves, when
turn in the road showed them that the
forest was nearly ended, and that the re-
naming portion of the journey ran
through an open country, where the
wolves would doubtless hesitate to follow;
indeed, the pace had been such that they
We're already falling off, and shot OF
two more from the rifle and revolver,
seemed to check their onrush. But it
was as if they were only concentrating
their energies for fresh charge, for just
as the forest was cleared, they surround
ed the sledge on all sides, and Paulo had
just time to fire at the first on one side,
when, turning quickly, he lodged the
contents of another barrel in the brain
of one that had already mounted the
olcdgc.
But this was the final charge Once
in the open fields the cowardly beasts
turned tail and skunk back to their native
wilds, while DER travellers reached Giro
onoff palace i'll B,'otv, but did not easily
forget, amid the festivities that awaited
them, the terrible race fo- life they had
run on that harsh winter night.