The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-20

gle. On such a glare as this tba+,u
as well as a tobogan. You bows ,, =, %
double ripper of yourselves yytb n
shingle under you and I'll sit on ,o,, o 'ie
well go kiting. anu
SO Jed and Carroll locked legs Iad
his stomach and Carroll sitting down aU o
the smngle under them. Then with Nai
in place on this human toboggan ~,
went kiting down that hill lickettv cn+t
But before they reached the foot Of -.
hill they saw pile of rocks right ac,o.s
their path and there sitting in from -
cave was the wolf. old Blueskin. eat,nr
a sheep. '''s
Ned saw her first and he said "o,,,.,
boys, unlock and roll off from the sbir
gle, or you'll be in the VOLTS den in lAss,r
minute. Get your bows ready ana
shoot steady. 'u
The boys minded instanter and the thro.
went rolling off to one side while the sbir
gle sped on alone and hit the wolf soma
in the nose.
That was uniucly because she baa -.
seen them before being too busy viii
her dinner. But now she looked I'M AMI
saw them and let out howl that Shoot
the hill and that stayed in the bo,ys,
minds for many long day.
TN fix him." said Jed, and he ft+e,
his red arrow as he rolled and fired poln.
But bless you, the arrow never uor,
near the wolf at all, but overshot the mari,
and went over the rocks and at the SAW
moment out from the den came Blueslin
Jr., as large as a st. Bernard and as faro'
cious as a bloodhound
And poor Jed couldn't stop rolling bp,
sud and rolled right into the arms of tho
whelp who fetched him such blow nr
the head that 1t laid open his scalp end
closed his mouth-for he tainted with main
and fright pam
l dare say that Mrs. Blueskin told her
son that they'd have an extra nice din.
ner in few minutes but for the present
they must leave Jed alone and trv to ger
breakfast and lunch out of the otbos
kind little boys who had invited tbar.
selves to visit them and stay for meals
Certainly Jed was not touched after HE
head had been damaged, but Mother Rlua
skin made ready for Carroll who with
trembling fingers was fitting the blue shaft
into his bow. He had managed to Sion
rolIlng ROD or so above her den. He
looked around, but he was alone. Titns
Ned had disappeared. Carroll was too had.
Iy scared to take accurate aim and whers
as he meant to hit Mamma Blueskin h.
keeled over the whelp, who fell ON its
side with fierce yep.
When Blueekin saw her baby 20 down
she ripped out a hideous howl that een,
he
bounded at him with her jaws wide omen
and her red tongue 1olling and her scarlet
eyes blazing like fire brands. fAv
yards more and Ii would have been all
up with the poor boy, because the bna
wolf was not thinking of food now. only
of the loss of her whelp. But Just as sbe
leaped upon him a red-tipped arrow fol-
lowed In her wake and caught her in the
small OF her back, which is a blue VOLTS
most Vulnerable spot, and she reared IN
on her launches bowling horribly Car
roll rolled out of reach of her terrblA
paws and saw Ned above the wolf den fit
ting his own white arrow into the bow
for the ending of the wolf
He had managed to steer past The mouth
of the den and climbing the rocks behind
1t he had found Jed's red arrow This had
come In handy to save CAROLS life and
now the white one, carefully aimed and
sent with a good will entered the wicked
brain of the big wolf and the farmers OF
Ocean county were free to keep all the
sheep they cared to.
Jed had meantime recovered conscious
ness and rose to his feet saying: wait
till I get another chance" but lust then
he saw old Mamma Blue and her offspring
lying on the ground and knew that his
share in the fun was over
You've saved my wife" said Carroll
to Ned, but Ned laughed in a shy way and
these wolves"
AS he spoke the ground gave indica-
tons of rising as it had done on their
way there. Quick witted Ned made the
boys pull the baby WOLF carcass on to
the other and then all three boys sat down
on them and in a jiffy the ground rose
at least a thousand feet and tilted the hill
the other way. OF course, with such
slippery crust of frozen snow the bodies
of the wolves were as good as sleds and
little shove started them off and they
went down like meteor and in some uu-
eXplainable way they never stopped until
they reach the town hail at latham.
1t being Saturday the town was full Of
farmers who had come in to do their
shopping and when the three boys came
coasting down Main street on their new
tangled blue double ripper why the whole
town went wild and nothing was too good
Tor Ned and his friends.
And want to tell you that Ned divided
the reward equally with Jed and Carroll
so that each boy had $S33.SS1s And the
wolves blue skins are stretched on the
front wall of the town hall as any one
may see who drives through latham.