The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-03-12

would help me. When / was out
riding the day before / noticed that
the road was full of great dane dogs.
wolf hounds and stag hounds, which
followed their masters sledges out in
| the country, and the dogs loafed
around hungry, looking for bones,
and fighting each other, so / decided
to get the dogs to chase our sledge
and make dad think we were chased
by wolves. l thought that would
make dad stand without hitching, and
/ it did.
The Chicago man bought some can
non firecrackers, and / bought a
cows liver. and hitched it to a rope
and hid it in the back seat, and my
Chicago friend and / took the back
seat, and we got dad in the seat be-
| hind the driver, and started about an
hour before dark. out in the country,
through a piece of woods that looked
quite wolfy On the way out the
driver let his horses run away a few
times, like you have seen in Russian
pictures, and dad was beginning to
sit UP and take notice, and seemed to
act like man who expects every
minute to be thrown over precipice
and mixed up with dead horses. Dad
touched the driver once on the coat
tail and told him not to hurry so con-
founded fast, and the driver thought
he was complaining because it was
too slow. and he gave a Comanche
yell, and threw the lines into the air,
and the horses just skedaddled, and
run into snow bank and tipped over
the sledge, and piled us out on top of
dad, but dad only said: This is
getting good"
We righted up and dad wanted to
know where all the pups came from
that we had passed. | had been
throwing out pieces of meat into the
road for a mile or so. and, the dogs
were having a picnic. 1t was getting
pretty dark by this time and we start
ed back to town, and l threw out my
liver fastened to the rope, and the
Chicago man, who had given the
driver drink of vodka when we tip
ped over, told him in Russian, that
when the dogs began to follow us, to
get hold of the liver, to yell wolves
and give the team the rein, for a five
mile run, and yell all the time, be-
cause we wanted to give the old gen
tleman good time.
Well uncle. / would have given
anything if you could have seen dad
when the dogs began to chase that
liver, and bark, and fight each other.
The driver yelled something in Rus
sian, and pointed back with his whip,
the Chicago man aid: my God, we
are pursued by a pack of ravenous
wolves, and there is no hope for u.s.
and l began to cry, and implored dad,
If he loved me, to save me. Dad
stood up in the sledge and looked
back, and saw the wolves. and he was
scared, but he said the only thing to
do was to throw something overheard
for them to be chewing on while we
got away, but he sat down and pull
ed robe over his head and his lips
were moving but do not know whom
he was addressing.
The Chicago man touched off a
couple of cannon firecrackers behind
the sledge. but that only kept the dogs
for a minute, and dad said probably
the best thing to do was to throw me
overheard and let them eat me, and
| said; Nay, nay, Pauline" and then
think dad tainted away, for he never
peeped again until the team had run
away a lot more, and 1 cut my liver
rope, and when we got into the
suburbs of st. Petersburg the dogs had
overtaken the liver and were fighting
over it.
The driver had to pull up his horses
as we struck the town, and dad must
have got a Whit off the drivers
vodka, because he come to, and we
got to the hotel all right and |
thought dad would simply die in his
tracks, but the ride and the excite
ment did him good, and he wanted to
buy a gun and go out wolf hunting
the next day, but our tickets were
bought, and we shall get out of this
terrible country tomorrow.
Dad woke me up in the night and
wanted to know if l saw him when he
pulled his knife and wanted to get out
and fight the pack of wolves single
handed. l am not much of liar, but
told him / remembered it we'll, and
1t demonstrated to me that he was as
brave man as the car, "the Little
Jack Rabbit as his people call him.
Well, thanks to my wolf hunt, dad
IS all right again, and now we shall
go to some country where there is
peace. / don't know where we will
lind it, but If such a country exists.
your little Henry will catch on, if
dads money holds out.
Yours, covered with Gore.
IIENNERY.