Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-15
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him. The kick had completed. his first
education. He came back with less eau
ton, but stffer-legged.zand a moment
later had dug his tiny teeth I'M the rab-
OTIS neck. He could feel the throb of life
in the soft body, the muscles OF the dying
RABBIT twitched convusvely under him.
and he hung with his teeth until there
was no longer tremor of life i'm his first
XIII. Gray Wolf was delighted. She
caressed Ba-ree with her tongue. and
even kazan condescended to snim an.
proVingly OF his son when he returned TO
the rabbit. And never before had warm
sweet blood tasted so good to Ba-ree as
II did today.
swiftly Ba-ree developed from a blood
tasting into n flesh-eating animal one
bN one the mysteries of life were un-
iolded to him-the mating night chortie
OF the gray owl, the crash OF a fnlling
tree. the roll Of thunder the rush OF rum
ming water, the scream OF a fsher-cat
the mooing of COW moose and the dis
tant call. OF his tribe. But chief of all
these mysteries that were already becom-
ing a part of his instinct was :he mystery
OF scent one day he wandered 30 yards
away from the windfall and his little nose
touched the warm scent of a rabbit. In
stahtly, without reasoning or further
process of education he knew that to get
at the sweet flesh and blood which he
loved he must follow the scent lie wrlg-
gled slowly along the trail until he came
to big log, over which the rabbit had
vaulted In long leap, and from this log
he turned back Each day after this he
went on adventures of his own. At first
ne was like an explorer without COM
pass In vast and unknown world
Each day he encountered something
new, always wonderful frequently terri
wing. But his terrors grew less and less
anu his confidence correspondingly great
er AS he found that none ul the Things
he feared did him any harm he became
more and more bold in his investigations.
And his appearance was changing, as
well as his vitws of things His round
roly-poly body was taking different
form. The yellow of his coat darkcncd.
and there was whitsh-gray streak
along his back like Tnat atOne KaZaIi s.
He had his mothers underthroat and
her beautiful grace of head. otherwise
he was true son of kazan. His limbs
gave signs of future strength and mas
siveness He was broad across the chest
His eyes were wide apart with u little
red in the lower corners. The forest
people know what to expect OF husky
pups who early develop that drop of red
1t is warning that they are born of the
wild and that their mothers, or fathers
are of the savage hunt-packs. In Ba-ree
that it could mean bu; one thing While
he was almost half dog, the wild had
claimed him forever
Not until the day of his first real bat
tie with living creature did BARGE come
fully into his inheritance. He had gone
farther than usual from the windfall-
fully n hundred yards. Here he found a
new wonder. 1t was the creek. He had
heard II before and he had looked down
on II from afar-from n distance of 30
yards at last. But today he ventured
going to the edge of IT, and there he
stood for a Ions time. with the water rip
plirg and singing at his feet, gazing
across 1t INTO tie new world that he saw
Then he moved cautiously along the
stream. He had not gone Il do2er steps
when there was a furious iiuttering close
to him. and one of the fierce bg-eyed
jays of the Northland was directly it,
his path. II could not ny. One OF its
wings dragged. probably broken in a
struggle with some one of the smaller
preying beasts. But for an instant 1t was