Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-11-13

sleek and lively little fellow from the
beginning, for there was no division
of mother strength and attention. He
developed with the true swiftness OF
the wolf-whelp, and not with the slow
ness of the dog-pup. 40" "
For three days he was satisfied to
lcuddle close against his mother, feed.
ing when he was hungry, sleeping a
great deal and preened and laundered
almost constantly by Gray VOLTS af,
fectionate tongue From the fourth
day he grew buster and more inquisi-
tive with every hour He found his
mothers blind face, with tremendous
effort he tumbled over her paws, and
once he lost himself completely and
SMILED for help when he rolled fifteen
or eighteen inches away from her. 1t
was not long after this that he began
to recognize Kazan as part of bis
mother, and he was scarcely more than
a week old when he rolled himself up
contentedly between Kazan's forelegs
and went to sleep. Kazan was puz-
zled. Then with deep sigh Gray
Wolf laid her head across one OF her
mates forelegs, with her nose touch
ing her runaway babe, and u seemed
vastly contented For half an hour
Kazan did not move. awe
When he was ten days old Ba-ree
discovered there was great sport in
tussling with bit Of rabbit fur 1t
was a little later when he made his
second exciting discovery Light ana
sunshine. The sun had now reached a
point where in the middle Of the after
noon a bright CLEAN of it found its
way through ansoyerhead opening IN
the windfall At first Ba-ree would
only stare at the golden streak Then,
came the time, when he, tried to play
with it as he played with the, rabbit
fur. Each day thereafter he went
little nearer the aopenig through which 1'n
Kazan passed from the w1ndfall INTO NJ
the big world outside, Finally Ia. came
the time when he reached the opening
and crouched.,s there. blinking ana
frightened at what he saw. and now
GRAY Wolf no; longer tried to hold MIN ~
back but went out into the sunshine
and tried to call him to her. 1T was
three days, before his weak. eyes had
grown strong enough toaperm1t his fol-
lowing her, and very quickly after that
Ba-ree learned to love the, sun tne
warm air, and the, sweetness OF NE,
and to dread the darkness OF the, CLOS
ed-in den where, he,shad been, born. reg,
That this world was, not altogether
so nice as it at first appeared ne was
very soon to learn At the darkenlng
signs of an approaching storm one day
Gray Wolf tried tosluret him back IN
der the windfalL enIts was her, tlrst
warning toitBa-ree and. hess did not w
derstand. Where Gray Wolf failed, ma
, ture came to each a first lesson. "a.
rec was caurhts in q sudden deluge OF
rain. It fattened him out in pure ter
ror and he was adrenched and half
drowned before Gray Wolf caught him
fetwccnnher Jaws and carried HIM IN,
to shelter. by one after this the
first strange experiences Of life; came
! to him, and one by one his Instincts
received their birth. Greatest for. him
Of the days to follow was that 3on
which his inquisitivel nose touched the
raw flesh of freshly killed, and bleed.
ing rabbit. It was shis first taste q
blood. It was sweet 1t filed him
with stran gefqexcitementH and there,
after he knew what5it, meant when IA,
IAN brought inesomething between his
laws He soonsbegan6 to battle with
sticks in place ofsthe soft fur and MS
teeth grew as hard and as sharp as
little needles. s'r..% .aH
! The Great Mystery was barred to him
at last when KaZan brought IN be-
tween his Jaws, big rabbit that was
still alive but so badlyncrushed that 1t
could not run when dropped to the
ground. Ba-ree learned to know what
rabbits and partridgesra meant = : the
sweet warm blood that he loved better
even than he had everploved his moth
er's milk. But they,had come to him
dead. He had never seen one OF the
monsters alive. And now the rabbit
that Kazan dropped to the ground
kicking and struggling with broken
hack, sent Ba-ree back appalled,. For
. few moments he wonderingly watch
ed the dying throes OF kazans prey
Both Kazan and Gray Wolf seemed 10
understand that this was to be Ba-ree
first lesson in his education as stay
ing and flesh eating creature, and they
stood close over the rabbit, making nc
effort to end it's struggles. Half doz
en- times tray WOiI slilASo az .iA' -
bit and then turned her blind face TO-
ward Ba-ree. After the third or fourth
time Kazan stretched himself out OF,
his belly few feetlaway and watched
the proceedings attentively. Each time
that Gray Wolf lowered her head to
muzzle the rabbit Ba-ree's little ears
shot up expectantly When he saw
that nothing happened and that his