Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1888-10-31

.-srcIn; they had abandoned it for their
winter haunts The outlook for the two
adventures was appalling. They wers
afraid of trying to break out through the
deep snow drifts, and starvation stared
them in the face if they staid. Tho man
that met had his dog with him They
put themselves on very short commons,
so as to use up their -four as slowly a.
possible. and hunted unweariedly, but
saw nothing.
Soon q violent quarrel broke ont be-
tween them The other man, . fierce,
sullen fellow. insisted that the dog should
be killed, but the owner was exceedingly
attached to it, and refueed For couple
Of weeks they spoke no words TO each
other, though cooped IN the little narrow
pen of logs Then one night the owner
of the dog was wskaned by the animal
crying out; the other man had tried TO
kill it with hts knife, but failed The
provisions were now almost exhausted,
and tho two men were glazing st each
other with the rage Of maddencd. raven
ing hunger. Neither dared to sleep, for
fear that the other would kill him Then
the one who owned the dog at last spoke,
and proposed that, to give each chance
for his life. they should separate He
would take half of the handful Of -four
that was left and start of to try to get
home; the other should stay where be
YVES, and II he tried to follow the first he
was warned that he would be shot with
out mercy. A like fate was to be the
portion of the wanderer if driven TO re-
turn to the hut. The arrangement was
agreed to and the two men separated,
neither daring TO turn his back while they
were within rife shot of each other
For two days the ono who went OF
toiled on with weary weakness through
the snow drifts. Late on the second
afternoon, as he looked back from high
ridge, he saw in the far distance black
speck against the snow, coming along OF
his trail His companion was logging
his footsteps. Immediately be followed
his own trail back little and laid IN am
bush. At dusk his companion came
stealthily up, rife in hand. peering eau
tiously ahead, his drawn face showing
the starved, eager ferocity of the wild
beast, and the man he was hunting shot
him down exactly as if he had been one
Leaving the body where it fell. the wan
derer continued his journey, the dog stag
gering painfully behind him. The next
evening he bake< his last cake and divided
it with the dog In the morning, with
his belt drawn still tighter round his skel-
eton body, he once more set out, with ap-
parently only few hours of dull misery
between him and death. At noon he
crossed the track of huge timber wolf;
instantly the dog gave tongue, and, rally
ing it's strength. ran along the trail. The
man struggled after
At last bis strength gave out and he sat
down to die. but while sitting still, slowly
stifening with the cold. he heard the dog
baying In the woods. Shaking off his
mortal numbness, he crawled towards the
sound, and found the wolf over the body
of deer he had just killed. and keeping
the dog from it. At the approach Of the
new assailant the wolf suuenly drew Of.
and the man and dog tore the raw deer
flesh with hldeous eagerness. 1t made
them very sick for the next twenty four
hours; but, lying by the carcass for two
or three days. they recovered strength
Theodore Roosevelt in The Century.