The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-07-21

ing so important role became really fan
tastic
Terrified by the flames, whose weird glare
lent lurid color to all the surrounding
shrubbery, the wolves had reiterated TO a
little distance Like monsters vomited
from the neither world, they turned swiftly
round and round our fire which they dared
not cross and which made a sort of ram
part for US Their thousand eyes, which
| shone like thousands of burning Goals, shot
| out phosphorescent gleams their howlings,
their wild leaps, their enormously enlarged
shadows, gave a strange and terrible effect
10 The scena 1t suggested faneies of an
| thropophagi dancing the death-dance around
| their victims
| Su ldenly change, which we could not
nxplain bub which we noticed at once, took
| pil y in their movements Their leaps be-
cam. systematically regular; their ranks
formed in order, their bowling became
| ..hurus. almost hai mony-to disorder sue
| ccedei order, symphony to cacophony. The
circla which they now made around us was
automatically regular they wheeled in
gsllop measured and automatic, like that
OF circus horses
Little by little their course quickened; ;
they logan to galiop with dizzy rapidity,
| hut always at one place, like cavalry upon a
day of review
Thoughless Of the danger that menaced us,
we kept watching them; we almost admired
| them But the thousands of luminous points
whiriing around disappearing and disap-
pearing with the rapidity OF lightning, daz-
lied and fascinated like the glittering
tln5el trappings of those wooden horses cir
cling under a thousand lights at one of our
great fairs The howiings, now monoton-
ous-and ca1enc II, made us drowsy, made us
dreamy
AMI in little time it seemed to us that
We were being drawn into a great inverse
movement: We felt ourselves carried along
in an Internal dance, in "A develish whirl-
ours Ives our horses, and even our fires.
The wolves no longer appeared to move-it
~a5 We who were circling round and round
under the gaze of those thousand flaming
eyes, motionless, "a. ing with frightful iixity.
The Wild beasts were the spectators, they
We're the orchestra; we were only the actors
'Caramba! shut your eyes, everybody y
cried Bare:o
We al started at the gau hos voice--w,
oheyel him. it was high time, W were Oh
the point o. falling
Tie ascimation had passed.: the charm
was broken.
III, wolves still whirled around us-stil
, Kept their eyes fixed upon us; it was evl
, Gently "A vancouver to make us dizzy. lmi
tating our guide We flung some burning
brands into the miSila Of the pack.
Terrified, and bowling louder than before
, under the bite Of the fire, the beasts of prey
. disbanded; their howlings were no longer
the same, they We're cries of fury and pain
they felt the gam, was lost they knew
their prey would escape them.
! Thanks 10 Barleio We had triumphed owe
one of the greatest dangers which threaten
all travellers bold enough 10 venture int
} the chanars of the south the vaqueano haC
saved our lives
> The situation remained unchanged unit
t the first CLEANS OF dawn Logan to whittier
!, the sky; with the coming of the morning
. the carnivorous beasts returned TO thei
| gloomy haunts. -Translated from Henri,
Leturgue for Times Democrat