Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-07

| about an hour after the event related
above. The dog had shown great rest.
lcssness, occasionally stopped and shifted
the air, though Fritz was quite ignorant
OF the cause. His parents lay awake as
their boy approached the hotel. They
were not likely to sleep that night. The
horrors of what might be happening up
that awful valley filled their minds They
knew in an instant the footstep of Fritz
and the bark of Kaiser. The man darted
down stairs to open the door to his boy.
| THANK God you have GOMEZ said he,
his face pale and his voice agitated. I"We
didn't expect you at this time. Make
haste in SAID he, as he began early to
close the door. Fritz fingered in the
! road.
II don't know what's the matter with
Kaiser tonight; he has been wonderfully
restless for the last hour. and now he is
shifting about the road as if he smelt
danger. There are footstepts in the snow,'
attentively examining the ground. "Who
has been here, father? or what? Here,
Kaiser, Kaiser, come here, old dog
| The dog obeyed. The animal and his
master had now entered the door of the
inn. The door was Immediately slam
med to, and the pale, terrified host told
the dreadful story to Fritz.
my father. you have never sent that
traveller away?"
II have, boy. He was hunted hard by
pack of wolves, and we dared not open
the house lest the whole pack had come
in upon us,' and the wretched mans
teeth chartered in his fright
ooh, father, what have you done. It's
q disgrace to the valley, it's disgrace to
Switzerland; it will be a lasting, lasting
| disgrace to our family
And the boy rushed toward the stable
door. In minute after, in spite OF his
fathers earnest expostulatlon, he had
flung himself On to the unsaddled horse,
and with Kaiser at his heels, dashed up
the Loutcrbrunncu Pass. The wretched
parents listened in anguish to the rapidly
receding sounds ''of the horse, and Sec
ond time the valley was left to silence,
to solitude and the night.
The gallant boy rode almost wildly on.
1t was long before he caught sound,
although he often stopped to listen, but
could hear nothing above the wall of the
wintry night. At length he fancied
he could discern very far away, be-
You'd the Staubach, the faint bay of
wolves, sound to which the ears of Fritz
had been accustomed from his childhood.
lie urged his horse on with greater eager
ness, hoping he might not arrive too late
| to be OF use to the unfortunate traveller.
| His horse suddenly swerved, and Kaiser
| dashed forward on what turned out to
be the bloody carcass of a wolf on the
road. It was evident that the man had
had desperate struggle with his first
assailant. On went Fritz, and found the
snow upon the road marked with long
track OF blood stains; another animal,
not dead, but disabled, lay by the side
OF the road, to which it had crawled
Kaiser soon settled the matter and left
it dead.
Fritz was now in an agony of distress
expecting every moment to come upon
some trace Of the object of his pursuit.
A few yards further and under the boughs
OF some trees which overhung the way,
lay stretched the still hcaving body OF
the horse. The miserable man had evil
IDENTITY deserted the horse to become the
prey OF the ravenous brutes in hopes OF
| saving himself; but not u wolf remained
near the body of the horse, which they
had satisfied themselves with lacerating
IN the eager pursuit Of its rider. At that
| instant human voice sounded upon
Fritz's ear some little way further on; it
was clearly the note Of person liz the
extreme agony Of despair--that despair
which was so naturally awakened by al
solitary valley among the mountains on a
winters night, and the presence of hun
cry wolves.
The great difficulty Of Fritz at this
moment was how he was to save the un-
fortunate man, who was cllnging hazard
ously to the bough Of the tree, which
could not support him long. Between
the boy and the terrified traveller was now
ranged circle of silent wolves, for these
animals, when they feel sure of their
prey, give up their baying and their
bowling. The moment was critical, but
the instinct and experience of an Alpine
boy told him 1T once what to do. He
looked at the figure upon the bough and
gave signal OF encouragement with his
hand. He was not more than twenty
yards from the tails of tue pack. Kaiser |
remained quiet, with his tail between his |
legs; he was dog far too we'll trained to
advance a step without his masters bid
ding, though ready to spring at the
throat of any wolf, or do battle with anv
three. Any but a thoroughly Alpine boy
would have been in perfect perplexity at
this time.
Before him upon the bow of the tree, |
was the miserable man he had come to |
save. Betwe IN himself and his object
wasa circle of the most dangerous AMI
mails Of the mountain or the forest. Brave
and daring as his dog was, Fritz we'll
knew that in this crisis Kaiser could do
nothing. He sprang from his horse; the
hose trembled; Kaizer never moved. In
few moments Fritz had gathered some
dry sticks upon the opposite hillside: he
struck spark from the flint he always
carried with him, and in a minute bril-
liant flame illuminated the forest and
tlared over the hungry band With the
instinct of the wild beast of the forest or
the mountains, the wolves were startled
by the fire. With piteous howl, the
whole herd darted from the tree, tails be-
tween their legs. Kaiser, who had stood
hitherto covering with fear, now gained
1resn courage. But there was not u mo-
ment to be lost. Fritz knew this, for
within few minutes the wolves would
be back. He flung more and more dry