Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-30

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And the little girl in that shack, Hen
ri - she's a young lady now, and her
people are - well, rich. don't care
about that The chief thing is that she
is going to marry me in the spring. Be-
cause of her I stopped killing things
when she was only sixteen. The last
thing / killed was a prairie wolf and 1t
had young. Eileen kept the little pup
ipy. She's got it now - tanned That's
why above all other wild things love
the wolves. And l hope these two
leave your trap line SAFE" es.s,.1
i Henri was staring at him. Weyman.
gave him the picture. 1t was OF a
sweet faced girl, with deep pure eyes,
and there came a twitch at the cor
ners of Henri's mouth as he looked at
1t.
my Iowaka died tree year ago. ne
said. she too loved the wild thing.
But them wolf = damn! They drive
me out if I can not kill them!" He
put fresh fuel into the stove, and pre-
pared for bed.
One day the big idea came to Henri.
Weyman was with him when they
struck fresh signs Of lynx There was
a great windfall ten or fifteen feet high
and in one place the logs had formed
, a sort of cavern, with almost solid
walls on three sides. The snow was
beaten down by tracks, and the fur OF
, rabbit was scattered about. Henri was
jubilant
eve got heem = sure!' he said.
He built the bait house, set trap
: and looked about him shrewdly. Then
| he explained his scheme to Weyman
, If the lynx was caught, and the two
! wolves came to destroy 1t, the fight
, would take place In that shelter under
the windfall and the marauders would
, have to pass through the opening. Sc
| Henri set five smaller traps, cenceallns
: them skilfully under leaves and moss
f and snow and all were far enough
g away from the bait house SO the trap
r ped lynx could not spring them in his
e struggles.
J. when they fight, wolf jump this
/ way an that an sure get in salo
8 Henri He miss one, two, tree - bu
!, he sure get in trap somewhere"
= That same morning light snow fell
making the work complete, for 1t GOV
y cred up all footprints and buried the
telltale scent of man. That night IA
j. IAN and Gray Wolf passed within
: hundred feet of the windfall, and Gray
VOLTS keen scent detected somethinS
j. strange and disquieting in the air. She
d informed Kazan by pressing his shout
t. der against his, and they swung of q
:. right angles, keeping to windWard O
4 the trapline.
l. For two. days aud three cold starll
f nights nothing happened at the wind
1T d. md
: to Weyman. The lynx was a hunter
v like himself, and also had it's hunt linz
g which it covered about once week
O On the fifth night the lynx returned
0 went to the windfall, was lured stralgh
g to the bait, and the sharp toothed stee
7 trap closed relentlessly over Its rlgh
hind foot. Ka2an and Gray Wolf wer'
!. travelling a quarter of a mile deepe
(. in the forest when they heard tn
i, clanking Of the steel chain as the Ign:
q fought to free itself. Ten minutes late
n they stood in the door of the windfal
J. cavern.
O It was a white clear night, so iille'
n with brilliant stars that Henri himsel
could have hunted by the light o
k them The lynx had exhausted itself
! and lay crouching on its belly as ka
q zan and Gray Wolf appeared. A
q usual, Gray Wolf held back while ka
!. IAN began the battle. In the first o
h second of these fights on the trap lin
O Kazan would probably have been dis
a emboweled or had his jugular vein GU
a omen, had the fierce cats been free
i They were more than his match il
: open fight, though the biggest of Their
fell ten pounds under his weight
t Chance had saved him on the SUI
9 Rock. Gray Wolf and the porcupin
, had both added to the defeat OF tn