Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-15
AT THE BIG HOUSE.
Canadi and the Wolves.

copyright, 1904, by the Bobbs- Merrill Coz
One day the children dropped into Aunt
'Phrony's cabin and found her sitting be-
fore the fire with her dog, Snap, curled up
at her feet and her quilt pieces lying all
about, engaged in putting together a gor-
geous and complicated pattern which she
called the "Sunflower Patch" Snap was
the lean and fll-favored hunting dog that
lived with Aunt 'Phrony on terms of armed
neutrality; when she showed him the broom,
he showed her his teeth, and the matter
under dispute was usually dropped then
and there. She valued him not for his char
acter. but for his accomplishments as a
hunter He valued her as the giver of
food and shelter. and apparently there was
no love lost between them; yet with that
curious sort of loyalty which often pre-
walls in families. Aunt 'Phrony would per-
nit no one to asperse her dog but herself.
1t was not safe even to agree with her
when she chose to speak her mind about
him. When she stirred him with her foot
to make room about the fire for the chill
dren. he gave an angry snarl and got up
and walked off with air of injured dig
nifty which suited his style of dogship ex-
actly. No doubt he knew that such was
the case, for he chose to wear that manner
the greater part of the time and only I'M
bent in the excitement of the chase.
Plague take de dog said his owner,
''dar's Twin wild de onma nnerly beas'.
He gifts mo- cross an revingeful all de
time Eff he live long huff / spec he git
ez bad ez de VOLTS whar ',seter wu'k fer
Canadi. Pears ter me dat de VOLTS an de
dogs is mighty clost akin, anyhow.
You AK me who wuz Caradi? Well, now.
he wuz in OIL OF Injun tale whar I'useter
year Wen L wuz iii gal in Nawt Ca'liny.
Canadi he wuz greet hunter; sech a greet
man an greet hunter dat lie people ain
b'lieve he wuz zackly humf n. His name
ms in n q tb1Ir rf,aa failr Itrlyy for
Game De big game an de Ill game he
cud fine an kill 'ern all, nelnmine how
dey hide demsefs way fun i'm in de
woods an de mountains an de k ayes an
evy one er de bu DIS an beas'e ses an de
fishes wuz feared er Canadi; dey wuz dat.
DE VOLTS and Canadi wuz gret fren's,
deed dey wuz all his servants an he wuz
de marster, an dey min jes what he say.
He uSeter go out an fin de game, an de
VOLTS dey'd wait an ketch hit an bring hit
home. Dey's greet on dat. Dey kin run
an run widout gittin' tired err losin' der
wind, an dey kin run down mos anything
ketch some creetur dey jes' gifts toge'rr an
runs an runs him ontwel he's all beat
out an stove up. an den dey
nabs in. Dey sut'n'y is mean
skins, wild der OF green eyes an der long
tongues lollin' out an der greet tools "a
shinin'. 'Scuse me fun meetn' UP wild
'em after dark. But Canadi he want Jack
ly human. so he want feared I'm 'em; deed
dey wuz feared er him an dey ain dast
ter disobey him.
lone day he call 'em ter come an go
wild i'm, 'kase he wuz gwine out after big
game an he want 'em ter foller clost. He
ain feed 'em den kase he knowed dey
hunted better wen dey wuz hongry, but
he alluz gin 'em a part er wat dey brung
home. Well, dey went on an dey went on,
up inter de big mountains, an las Canadi
come cross a turr'ble creetur whar live
in kyave, an he lef' de VOLTS ter skeer
hit out an fetch hit to i'm, an den went
on bout his bizness.
de VOLTS dey skeered de creetur out an
10 an behop twuz a greet sarpint. But,
bless goodness, he ain have no notion er
gittin' outer de way; he jes' come a-rarin'
outer de kyave an splunged right inter de
midse er de wolfs an L tell you dey had
hit den. De fur fiewed an de VOLTS howled
an de sarpint Kissed 'twel de mountains
plumb shuk an de stones come a-rollin'
down de sides. Las de sarpint bit one'r
de VOLTS an kilt i'm, an de res got skeered
an went lopin' off an lef' i'm dar.
Dat wuz de fus time dey fail sence dey
bin dom huntin' fer Canadi, an dcy ses ter
one nu'rr, 'Canadi mus a had ham in
dis Dey knowed he wuZ 2 greet cunjerer an
dey 'spicioned dat he done putt a spell on
de wolf whar got kilt. Dey study bout hit