Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-26
MILLS COUNTY FARMERS STOCK
GUARDIAN ELoPEs WITH A
WOLF.
LONG. srANpING FEUD
HAS ROMANTIC ENDING
Failure Of Shepherd Dog to Conquer
Ensrny Results in Admiration and
Dog 10 Induced to Abandon Human
Friends For Life in the Wild With
Affinity.
Special to Times Republican.

\ Glenwood, April 26.-"Where's Shep?"
That was the question a youth in a
! Mills county family put to his father
I one evening last winter as he entered
. the house and joined the family group
about the tire. Father was sure that
"Shep" was somewhere about: he never
left the place. Yet the lad had not been
I able to locate the dog and he was not
4 in the habit of disputlne his father and
the matter was dropped, But the lad
right. Shep was not upon the place.
Shep was an autocrat in his way
around the farm in the West Oak hlk:
bordering the Missouri river. lie was
of no particular breed YET he showed
a trace Of shepherd in the yellow bars
over his eyes and his whskered muzzle
limited Of terrier strata in his an
cestry
Hate Turned to infatuation.
| One afternoon Shep detected u wolf
that had sneaked in from q brush
thicket and was stalking a hen. Shep
| bristled angrily and was after the Wolf
|kWith series Of yelps that promised
bad things when wolf and dog should
meet. But Shep was not fast enough
/ to catch the wolf and after chasing It
into the hills he returned to the barn
yard and resumed his vigil. Time and
again Shep and the Wolf did a mara
thon. sometimes not until after the
wolf had captured the hen. The chase S
became quite perf,nctory after a time
and Shep seemed TO abandon any no.
ton of ever being a Die to catch the
wolf. 1t was on bright and frosty
day that Shep and the wolf engaged
in what came to be an almost daily
stunt, but as they raced away the wolf
slackered its speed, then turned and
faced the guardian of the harnYard.
Shep was amazed and at first glca ting
over his prize but became a bit ppre-
hensive Shep knew something OF the
VOLTS prowess and he had come to have
a certain respect for his adversary'.s
cunning and arts. But there was to be
no battle. There was that in the atti-
tude of the Wolf that told Shep this
much. As Shep approached the wolf
barred his teeth and Shep halted They
stood thus motionless facing each other.
Shops bristles snoothed down and he
clearly indicated that he had lost all
ideas OF battle and the wolf showed it
had different ideas of conquest, for its
bristles smoothed down. it's teeth no
longer showed tner sheen and its 1.-THE
body wiggled about just a little And
then the wolf slowly disa ppeared in
the hills and Shep returned 10 the barn.
Tho Affinity Evidence.
There is ridge along these West
Oak hills overlooking he Missouri
liver !s1ttom and dented with timbered
rayines Along this ridge that night a
swiftly moving pair Of creatures rouped
side by side. II was Shep and The wolf
5hep from time TO time bis carressing-
y at the VOLTS throat anG as if seek
Ing to locate a vulnerable spot but the
wolf seemed not a all afraid and in
no way resented the sudden familiar
ty. For each had found It's affinity.
One day this month an old trapper
brought to Glerwood nine wolf pups he
had taken from a hole In the West Oak
hills and he presented them to Auditor
'riswell for the bounty. Steve looked
hem over and as he drew the warrant
ne remarked upon the peculiar appear
Rnce of two Of the pups who were un-
Usually marked with white front feet.
Shops ancestral mark