Thus spiting his toes by biting his nose, as the bull and the cat and the wolf soon showed him.
Though he still feared them, he had, by this time, learned to trust the red moccasins, and now felt assured that they would defend him against the wolf as they had done against the bull and the cat.
As he turned to flee he threw a fearful glance behind him, and through the chinks of the forest caught sight of a bear, a panther, a wolf and a bison bull, coming swiftly on and making directly toward him.
A somewhat similar account is given by Ludwig Wolf of the Ba-Twa pygmies visited by him and Wissmann in the Kassai region.
Dr Wolf connects all these Negrillo peoples with the Bushmen south of the Zambesi.
Across the water rises Sinopah Mountain, while to the north sweep upward the gray-green slopes of Rising Wolf to terminate in purple-red argillites and snow banks.
In the early season it appears a very proper waterfall, paneled by lofty spruce with the purple, snow-crowned Rising Wolf Mountain in the background.
With difficulty he drew the wolf from the jaws of the eager hounds, and swung it into the wagon out of the dogs' reach.
A mile of good trail and they were at home, welcomed by the baying of two huge Russian wolf hounds.
Then, catching it by the hind leg, he hauled wolf and hounds out of the tent in one squirming mass.
With a howl of rage and pain, Captain clawed the ground in his effort to recover himself, but before he could renew his attack, and just as the wolf was setting forth again, like a cyclone Queen was upon them.
At the very instant that the wolf came opposite the door of Aunt Janet's tent, Captain reached for the extreme point of the beast's extended tail.
Steadily the gap between the wolf and the pursuing hounds grew less, till at length, fearing the inevitable, the hunted beast turned towards the little bluff, and entered it with the dogs only a few yards behind.
The wolfhad seized hold of Captain's upper lip and was grimly hanging on, while Queen was gripping savagely for the beast's throat.
As he came out upon the open prairie, Captain, the noble and worthy son of Blucher, caught sight of a prairie wolf not more than one hundred yards distant, and was off after him like the wind.
Right through the little belt of timber dashed the wolf with the dogs and Kalman hard upon his trail.
You see, the wolfand the dogs ran right into her tent.
With his club Kalman struck the wolf a heavy blow, stunning it so that it released its hold on the dog.
So terrific was her impact, that dogs and wolf rolled under the tent door in one snarling, fighting, snapping mass of legs and tails and squirming bodies.
These serve merely to bind up the bowels and retain the irritant source of the trouble; literally, "to shut up the wolf in the sheep-fold.
I have trained you to pillage and murder, as I would have amused myself in training a young wolf for slaughter, that some day I might be able to hurl you against my enemies.
And the long grey wolf padded beside him with a limp tongue lolling out between the ragged palings which stood him for teeth.
Then with one arm around the shaft to steady himself, he made a fine sermon to the neighbours crowding in the Square, and the wolf stood with his fore-paws on the edge of the fountain and helped him.
The mocking legends of the Wolfand the Fox were wielded without mercy by many mediæval satirists, against the human animals of those species, then prevailing in courts and cloisters.
Her wing shall the eagle flap 175 O'er the false-hearted; His warm blood the wolf shall lap, Ere life be parted.
The she-wolf is yonder, the cub is here," he cried.
The lips were firm and straight, the sightless eyes seemed to be seeking for something, hunting as a blind wolf might have done.
Sour-dough Charlie had a little ranch of his own on Wolf Creek where he kept a few horses.
For this reason they located themselves at the head of Wolf Creek, in what is now Ochiltree county, Texas.
After crossing Wolf Creek and getting well up on the divide he discovered the trail, but found it very difficult to follow owing to the snow having drifted and covered any marks they had left behind them.
Next morning we set out before dawn, and sunrise found us on Wolf Creek trail.
At best, it was a tedious journey and on the seventh day after leaving Fort Sill, he crossed the North Canadian just below the junction where the Beaver and Wolf Creeks form the headquarters of the North Canadian.
As many years have passed since that time, I have often wondered what became of the efficient postmaster of Wolf Creek.
I had the pleasure last year, 1912, of seeing old Chief Lone Wolf strutting around the streets of Hobart, Okla.
To give further proof of his intentions to compel them to submit, he told Lone Wolf and Satanta that unless those Indians who had made their escape did not return very soon, he would hang the two of them without ceremony.
To show no partiality in the matter, Chief Lone Wolfwas also manacled.
It is true, some of them raised small patches of corn, which with the rations issued by the Agency and the game they killed, kept the wolf from the door, or rather the flaps of their teepees.
His request was granted and the recruits were placed under the command of Colonel Crawford with orders to meet General Sheridan at the junction of Wolf and Beaver Creeks, or what is now known as Camp Supply.
The first night out they camped on the south bank of Wolf Creek where they found an abundance of timber and living water, two essentials at that time as the weather was hovering around the zero mark.
Why does affliction dog the man who earns two bones a day, who, though he try the best he can, can't drive the wolf away?
However, the cayotte, the fox, and the wolf may be called wild dogs.
He then told me his name; informed me that people were hunting him like a wolf among the woods; and asked if I could expect him to venture into the very midst of his enemies.
I gave him a cake of my bread, and he devoured it like a ravenous wolfthat had been starving a fortnight in the snow; I then gave the poor creature some fresh water, with which, if I would have let him, he would have burst himself.
As it was, the wolf often bayed at the door of the Strehla household, without a wolf from the mountains coming down.
The cooking evidently made Colorow furious, for he vanished into some brush and made noises as of a wolf growling with hunger just as he prepares to tear at a bone.
Another farm was opened--a few acres subdued and enough raised to keep the wolf from the door.
The maid went to the fire in the kitchen to light a candle, and seeing the wolf with its jaws wide open, rushed out into the yard, thinking the brute had surely devoured the children.
Early the next morning the merchants paid the reckoning for Owlglass, as well as for themselves, and rode on their way, mine host calling after them to beware lest a wolf should cross their path.
How Owlglass frightened an Innkeeper at Eisleben with a deadWolf 90 XXII.
An hour later they were floundering through the drifts toward the cabin on Wolf Creek.
At the mouth of Wolf Creek a recruit joined the company.
But I bowled Mr. Wolf over, and then I ran after the other one and the blatting Bozie.
Bozie dodged the wolf somehow and came circling back at me, his tail flirting in the air, coming in stiff-legged jumps as a calf does, and searching his soul for sounds to tell how scart he was!
Then the wolf made a leap, and I saw his light-gray underbody right over my head as he flashed after poor Bozie.
Among the recreations which relieved the tedium of garrison life, was an occasional wolf chase.
Then we gave our Indian a royal breakfast, and his promised reward beside, and the wolf was taken away and put out of his misery, while beside the comfortable fireside we told all about our morning walk, from reveille to breakfast-drum.
On one of these occasions, the wolf was led to the starting point by some soldiers to be prepared for the chase, but none of them really liked the idea of taking hold of his fierce looking jaws while the muzzling process was going on.
Back on a great bare hill he sat, overlooking the now hateful valley, and trying to reason out in wolf fashion what it all meant.
The wolf pack was tracked and gradually thinned out and scattered, and Gray Coat, the big, brave leader of the pack, one day realized that he was just one solitary, lonely old wolf roaming the forests alone.
Suddenly the wolfemitted a low snarl, simultaneously with an inarticulate wail which proceeded from the hut behind.
Having first kicked the wolf out of the hut, the sorcerer set to work to tend the wound of his helpless victim.
A tiger-wolf howled along the river-bank, and although she knew that this brute is the most skulking and cowardly of carnivora, yet it might be different where there was only a frightened and defenceless woman to deal with.
The wolf he had already secured in one of the huts.
Suddenly her eye fell on an intimate scene across the room--Rachael and Captain Wolf were engrossed in a long kiss.
Captain Wolf sat on the left with Rachael on his knees.
They were interrupted as Rachael and Captain Wolfappeared suddenly before them.
