The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-11-24

81 have ever fondled dogs" answered
Umslopogaas. Shall learn to fear
them now?''
Yet though he spoke boldly in his
heart he was afraid. The wolves rushed
on him open mouthed, so that in breath
< he was we'll nigh hidden by their FORMS
Yet no fang pierced him, for as they
leaped they smelled the smell of the
skin upon him and dropped down at his
feet, fawning and licking him. Then
Umslopogaas saw that the wolves leaped
at him no more, but the she wolves gath
cred around him who wore the she VOLTS
skin. They were great and gaunt and
hungry, and their number was so many
that he could not count them. Umslopo-
gaas, looking on their red eyes, felt his
heart become as the heart of a wolf, and
he, too, lifted up his head and howled
and the she wolves howled in answer.
"The pack is gathered; now for the
hunt" cried Galazi. Make your feet
swift, my brother, for we shall journey
far tonight. Ho, Blackfang! Ho, Gray
| snout! Ho, my people. black and gray.
away, away!'
He spoke and bounded forward, and
with him went Umslopogaas and after
them streamed the ghost wolves Pres
emily they stood by kloof that was
thick with wood. Gxlazi stopped, hold
ing up the Watcher, and with him
stopped the wolves.
81 smell quarryr' he cried. I'm, my
people, in!"
Then the wolves plunged silently into
the great kloof, but Galazi and Umslopo-
gaas drew to the foot of it and waited.
Presently there came a sound Of break
ing boughs, and lol before them stood a
buffalo, bull, who lowed fercely and
shifted the air.
This one will give us good chase,
my brother"
As Galazi spoke the first of the wolves
drew from the covert and saw the buff
falo; then, giving tongue, they sprang
toward it. The bull saw also, and
dashed down the hill, and after him
came Galazi and Umslopogaas, and with
them all their company. On rushed the
bull, mad with fear. He rushed so
swiftly that the wolves were left behind,
since here for space the ground was
level to his feet Galazi looked on Um-
slopogaas at his side and grinned.
"You do not run SO i'll, my brother,
who have been sick of late. See now if
you can outrun me! Who shall touch
the quarry frst~
Now the bull was ahead by two spear
throws. Umslopogaas looked and grin
ned back at Galazi 'Good!" he cried.
"Awayl"
They sped forward with bound, and
for awhile it seemed to Umslopogaas as
though they stood side by side, only the
bull grew nearer and nearer. Then he
put out his strength and the swiftness
of his feet, and lol when he looked again
he was alone, and the bull was very
near. Never were feet so swift as those
of Umslopogaas. Now he reached the
bull as he labored on. Umslopogaas
placed his hands upon the back of the
bull and leaped; he was on him; he sat
him as you white men sit horse Then
he lifted the spear in his hand and drove
it down between the shoulders to the
spine, and of a sudden the great buffalo
staggered, stopped and fell dead
Then Galazi came up who, now,
is the swiftest. Galazi," cried Umslopo-
gaas, ~, or you or your wolf host2'
"You are the swiftest, Umslopogaas,"
said Galazi. gasping for his breath.
"Never did man run as you run, nor
ever shall again"
Now the wolves came up and would
have torn the carcass, but Galazi beat
them back. Then Galazi said, LET us
cut meat from the bull with spear.
So they cut meat, and when they had
finished, Galazi motioned to the wolves
and they fell upon the carcass. In a
little while nothing was left except the
larger bones. and yet each wolf had but
little.
Then they went back to the cave and
slept.
Afterward Umslopogaas told Galazi
all his tale, and Galazi asked him if he
would abide with him and be his BROTH
or, and rule with him over the wolf kind.
or seek his father Mopo at the kraal of
Chaka.
Umslopogaas said it was rather in his
mind to seek his sister NADIA, for he was
weary of the kraal Of ,Chaka, but he
thought on NADIA day and night
Where, then, is NADIA. your sister,?
asked Galazi.
"She tarries in the caves of your PEG
pie, Galazi; she tarries with the Hala-
kali"
Stay awhile, Umslopogaas, cried
Galazi; 'stay till we are men indeed.
Then we will seek this sister of yours
and snatch her from the caves Of the
Halakazi.'
Now the desire of this wolf life had
entered into the heart Of Umslopogaas
and he said that it should be SO, and on
the morrow they made them blood
brethren to be one till death, before all
the company Of the ghost wolves, and
the wolves howled when they smelled
the blood of men. In all things hence
forth these two were equal, and the
| ghost wolves hearkened to the voice of
both of them.
Now when Umslopogaas had abode