The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-01-14
THE rRANsGREssroN OF RoMuLUs

THE TRANSGRESSI0N OF ROMULUSs Up to December S1, 1904, ".Romulus. ''
 my tame prairie wolf, stood upon a
 pinnacle of virtue. Not that he was
 what you would call exactly 'fsaintly, B
 for he had spells of rnischievousness
 which were trying to those about him,
 and during which he would nip the
 bear, and pull tufts of hair out of the
 deer, or run off into the woods with
 his masterss cap or gloves, It has
 even been recorded that he once tore
 the trousers of a certain gentleman
 from the city, but in that case the cir
 cumstances justified severe methods.
 But the property of my farmer neigh
 bors he had never interfered with.
 Temptations were many, but he resist
 ed them all. He never chased the cat
 tie or the sheep, though I'm sure that
 to have done so would have proven
 keen sport for him, and in passing a poultry yard would drop his head and
 turn his eyes away with a 'get-thee-he-
 hind-me-Satin' sort of an expression
 which was highly commendable in one
 so young and inexperienced. But alas
 for his character, one of my neighbors
 had dog, whose hide was black, and
 whose reputation was blacker. He had
 no regular occupation, and hung around
 our house a large part of his time, try
 ing to scrape acquaintance with the
 animals. Most of them would have
 nothing to do with him, but the coyote
 was friendly little fellow, and after
 a day or two began to rub noses with
 the dog. The latter was much older
 than Romulus, and his influence upon
 the young wolf was very marked from
 the first. They romped about for day
 or. two, and then one afternoon, they
 were seen walking away down the
 road together, as nearly arm-in-arm as
 two four-foots can walk. That evening
 Romulus did not appear at supper and
 for the first time in his life, he was
 literally "out all night, Next morn ing he came back, still in company
 with the black dog. His manner had already changed for the worse; he did
 not want to be caught, and finally when We ulu CdLCU I1IltI, itG was very lEtttdDlS and tried his level best to bite. We kept him in day or two, but on New Years Eve we relented and once more set him at liberty. He was mighty pleased, and showed his gratitude by following us about, and at every oppor- trnity throwing himself on his back
 that we might come up and caress him
 But in the afternoon he sauntered off met the black dog somewhere down the road, and again failed to answer tattoo roll call. Next morning early, q farmer drove up to the door in sleigh
 Some one suggested that he had come to wish us a Happy New Year, but this proved to be a mistake. He had come to inform me that my wolf had i'm the cold gray dawn attached his flock oi turkeys, and killed the biggest gobblel in the bunch. The family had attempt ed to drive him off by setting the dogs on him, but the wolf wagged his tai
 and refused to run, and the dogs simply turned round and played with him. It would have been easy enough to shooI l him, but there was no desire to be un. neighborly. Hastily strapping on a pair of snow-shoes, hurried off across lots to the scene of the tragedy. It was something over mile from my house in a swamp and there I saw a sight which recalled descriptions of the bat
 tie of Iiao Yang. For more than ar acre, the snow was strewn with feathers, and there was scarcely 8 square yard in all that space which was