Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-26
CHAPTER TX (Continued).
PETEY DINK

s Inc moon was sudlBAI dpofe tnohA'
and the night was almost as bright as
day, when he went down again to hunt
for Gray Wolf. At the foot of the rock
q big white rabbit popped up ahead
of him, and he gave chase. For half
milo he pursued, until the wolf instinct
IN him rose over the dog, and he gave
I'M the futile race. A deer he might
have overtaken, but the small game
the wolf must hunt as the fox hunts It,
and he began to slip through the thick
cts slowly and as quietly as a shadow.
He was q mile from the Sun Rock
when two quick leaps put Gray Wolr's
supper between his Jaws. He trotted
back slowly, dropping the big seven
Mound snowshoe hare now and then TO
rest. :.
When he came to the narrow trail
that led to the top of the Sun ROCK
he stopped. In the trail was the warm
scent of strange feet. The rabbit Tell
from his jaws. Every hair In his body
was suddenly electrified into life. what
he scented was not the scent OF q raD.
bit 4 marten or porcupine. Fang and
claw had climbed the path ahead OF
him. And then, coming family to MIN
him from the top of the rock, he heard
sounds which sent him up with q ter.
rible whining cry. When he reached
the summit he saw in the white moon
light a scene that stopped him for a
single moment. Close to the edge OF
the sheer fall to the rocks, fifty feet
below. Gray Wolf was engaged in
death struggle with huge gray lynx,
She was down 80 and under, and from
her there came a sudden sharp terrible
cry OF pain.
Kaxan few across the rock. His at
tack was the swift assault of the wolf,
combined with the greater courage tne
fury and the strategy Of the husky.
Another husky would have oled III
that first attack But the lynx was not
q dog or wolf. 1t was Novice the
swift" as the Sarcees had named II
the quickest creature in the wider,
ness Kazan's inch long fangs should
have sunk deep in its jugular. But IN
a fractional part Of second the lynx
had thrown itself back like huge
soft ball, and Kazan's teeth buried
themselves in the flesh OF its neck IN.
stead of the jugular. And Kazan was
not now fighting the fangs OF wolf
n the pack, or Of another husky. ne
was fighting claws - claws that ripped
Ike twenty razor edged knives, and
which even jugular hold could not
stop. @S
once he had fought a lynx in trap,
and he had not forgotten the lesson
the battle had taught him. He fought
to pull the lynx down. instead of fore
ing It on its back, as he would have
done with another dog or wolf. He
knew that when on its back the fierce
cat was most dangerous. One rip or
it's powerful hind feet could disem-
bowel him.
Behind him he heard Gray Wolf sob
hing and crying, and he knew that she
was terribly hurt. He was filled with
the rage and strength of two dogs.
and his teeth met through the flesh and
hide of the cats throat. But the big
LYNX escaped death by half an inch. 1t
would take a fresh grip to reach the
1ugular, and suddenly Kazan made the
deadly lunge. There was an tnstants
freedom for the lynx, and in that mo-
ment 1t flung itself back, and Kazan
gripped at it's throat - on top.
The cats claws ripped through his
flesh cutting open his side little
TOO high to kill. Another stroke and
they would have cut to his vitals. But
they had struggled close to the edge of
.he rock wall, and suddenly, without
snarl or cry, they rolled over. 1t
was fifty or sixty feet to the rocks of
the ledge below. and even as they
pitched over and over in the fall ka-
zans teeth sank deeper. They struck
with terrific force, Kazan uppermost.
The shock sent him half dozen feet
from his enemy He was up like
fash. dizzy, snarling on the defensive.