Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1915-10-26
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where 1t had fallen. Kaxan came ner-
Ily. Something told him that the fight
was over. He turned and dragged him
self slowly along the ledge to the trail,
and returned to Gray Wolf.
Gray Wolf was no longer In the
moonlight Close to the two rocks lay
the limp and lifeless little bodies of
the three pups. The lynx had torn
them to pieces. With a whine of grief
Kazan approached the two boulders
and thrust his head, between them.
Gray Wolf was there, crying to herself
In that terrible sobbing way. He went
in, and began to lick her bleeding
shoulders and head. All the rest OF
that night she whimpered with pain.
With dawn she dragged herself out 10
the lifeless little bodies on the rock
And then Kazan saw the terrible
work of the lynx. For Gray Wolf was
blind - not for day or night but
blind for all time. A gloom that no
sun could break had become he-
shroud. And perhaps again it was tina.
instinct of animal creation, which Of
ten is more wonderful than mans
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pened. For he knew now that she was
helpless = more helpless than the lit
tie creatures that had gamboled in the
moonlight few hours before. He re-
manned close beside her all that day.
Vainly that day did Joan call for Ka-
zan. Her voice rose to the Sun Rock,
and Gray VOLTS head snuggled closer
to Kazan and Kazan's ears dropped
back and he licked her wounds Late
in the afternoon Kazan left Gray Wolf
long enough to run to the bot
tom of the trail and bring up
the snow-shoe rabbit Gray Wolf
muz2led the fur and flesh. but would
not eat. Still little later Kazan urg-
ed her to follow him to the trail. He
no longer wanted to stay at the top
Of the Sun Rock. and he no longer
wanted Gray Wolf to stay there Step
by step he drew her down the winding
path away from her dead puppies. She
would move only when he was very
near her so near that she could
touch his SCARED flank with her nose
They came at last to the point in
the trail where they had to leap down
distance of three or four feet from
the edge of the rock. and here Kazan
saw how utterly helpless Gray Wolf
had become. She wbined, and crouch
ed twenty times before she dared
make the spring, and then she jumped
stiff legged and fell in a heap at Ka-
zar'a feet. After this Kazan did not
have to urge her so hard. for the fall
impinged on her the fact that she was
safe only when her muzzle touched her
mates flank. She followed him obedi-
emily when they reached the plain,
trotting with her foreshoulder to his
hip n .H-
Kazan was heading for thicket in
the creek bottom half mile away, and
dozen times in that short distance
Gray Wolf stumbled and fell And
each time that she fell Kazan learned
a little more Of the limitations of blind
ness. Once he sprang off in pursuit of
a rabbit, but he had not taken twenty
leap- when he stopped and looked
back. Gray Wolf had not moved an
inch She stood motionless, shifting
the air - waiting for him. For full
minute K Fan Stood also waiting Then
he returned 10 her. Ever after this he
returned to the point where he had left
Gray Wolf knowing that he would find
her there.
Al that day they remained in the
thicket In the afternoon he visited
the cabin. Joan and her husband were
there, and both saw at once Kazan's
torn side and his lacerated head and
shoulders.
pretty near finish fight for him.
said the man, after he had examined
him. 1T was either lynx or near.
Another wolf could not do that"
For half an hour Joan worked over
him, talking to him all the time, and