Half a dozen gulls flapped away heavily, and we caught sight of a wolverine sneaking off as we came near.
It was an anxious moment as I crawled up the frozen bank and waded through the snow to the scaffold; no wolverine tracks were to be seen, and the flour was lying untouched.
In one of our steel traps were the remains of a cross fox that a wolverine had eaten, and beyond a few more martens our fur-hunting was unsuccessful.
The wolverine is an animal found in California which unites the characteristics of the bear, weasel, fox and wolf.
The parka, or upper garment, is usually of marmot skins, trimmed with wolverine around the hood and lower edge, the long hair from the sides of the wolverine being used for the hood.
I begin to hope I may, if not outlive this wolverine upon my shoulders, at least carry him bravely like Symonds and Alexander Pope.
Yet if I could shake off the wolverine aforesaid, and his fangs are lighter, though perhaps I feel them more, I believe I could be myself again a while.
It has helped to make me more conscious of the wolverine on my own shoulders, and that also makes me a poor judge and poor adviser.
Of the Wolverineand the Wolves, or how Master Lox Froze to Death.
Then he was greatly angered, and when the Wolverine is angry it is not a little.
The Wolverinewizard becomes a girl, merely to make mischief.
Now Loki is Fire; and it may be observed in this legend that the wolverine or raccoon comes to life when thrown into scalding water, and that in another narrative Lox dies for want of fire; in another he is pricked by thorns and stung by ants.
While the hero is decidedly a Badger in the Micmac, I regard the great ferocity, craft, and above all the vitality which he displays as far more characteristic of the Lox or Wolverine of the Passamaquoddy.
They didn't know they were hunting for him, but somehow whenever one of them had secured a good meal, Mr. Wolverine was almost sure to happen along.
And one of the strangest of these is the story of how Glutton the Wolverinegot his name.
Knowing how scarce food was and the uncertainty of when he would get the next meal, Mr. Wolverine always made it a point on these occasions to stuff himself until it was a wonder his skin didn't burst.
Even when good times returned and there was no possible excuse for such greed, Mr. Wolverine continued to stuff himself until it seemed that instead of eating in order to live, as the rest of us do, he lived in order to eat.
So Mr. Wolverine kept out of sight as much as possible, and none knew how he lived or where he lived or anything about him save that he had a mean disposition.
About how the first Wolverine got the name of Glutton," replied Peter promptly.
Rather I should say that is the reason the first Wolverinewas named Glutton.
Those who secured more food than they could eat and tried to store away the rest found that no matter how cunningly they chose a hiding-place for it and covered their tracks, Mr. Wolverine was sure to find it.
I was speaking of Glutton the Wolverine who lives in the Great Forests of the Far North, and whom everybody hates.
Once upon a time long, long, long ago, the first Wolverine was sent out to find a place for himself in the Great World just as every one else had been sent out.
When he awoke Mr. Wolverine would finish what remained.
The wolverine is a voracious animal, and also one with an inquisitive disposition.
Yes, a wolverine had been there and we fell to calling him some appropriate names and as we went along, we invented other names which our cuss vocabulary did not possess.
The mystery was solved, a wolverine had drawn it up in the top branches of the tree and left it.
I have found no fewer than three martens when visiting my trap road a day after the wolverine had passed.
But vain hope, the wolverine is there to stop, and only opens his jaws when the deer is dead, or, as in my instance, through fear for his personal safety.
A wolverine has a bigger appetite than a cormorant.
Bloodstains on the snow around the trap showed where the wolverine had enjoyed a meal at the expense of the young trappers.
After this they pushed on in silence, watching as they went the stealthy tracks of the wolverine following, like themselves, the unknown marauder of the night.
This looked ominous, for the wolverine is not, as a rule, an energetic animal, and proved at least to Tom's mind that the robber must be traveling very quickly.
As he followed up the traps he noticed that beside the ravages of the wolverine other tracks began to appear in the snow, telling of the presence of animals only less welcome.
Next morning we reached Wolverine Point, a dismal hamlet of six or seven cabins, with a graveyard in their midst.
Wolverine is also a region of heavy spruce timber, and fish are abundant in the various streams which join the Peace River, though not in the Peace itself.
This morning on returning to bring in the rest of the meat we found that a Wolverine had been there and lugged the most of it away.
Bellalise, a half-breed of Chipewyan, told me that twice he had found Wolverine dens, and been seriously endangered by the mother.
It was undoubtedly some animal with short legs, whether a Wolverine a mile away, or a Musk-ox two miles away, was doubtful.
The Wolverine is one of the typical animals of the far North.
More than one of the hunters have assured me that it is safer to molest a mother Bear than a mother Wolverine when accompanied by the cubs.
He had no gun, and was surprised by coming on an old Wolverine in a slight hollow under the boughs of a green spruce.
This told us that the dogs must be driving them very close, for a wolverine will make a big fight, before he will give up what he has secured.
Following Mr Ross, the boys speedily obeyed, and when they reached the tree they found that one wolverine was dead and the other was hobbling off, as speedily as he could, on three legs.
The dogs had driven one wolverine up into the branches of a large tree, while others were barking furiously at two others which they had chased up among some steep rocks.
The only excitement the boys had, was when one of the Indians came in from exploring the beaver house and dam, and told them that a large wolverine was seen walking on the dam the heavers had made, and then round and round the beaver house.
The only clue they had was that a great wolverine came tumbling out of the tree and hurried away into the dense forest.
It was well that they found it when they did, as the wolverine had cut through the outer coverings of deerskin, and had already ruined several valuable furs.
Soon the gun rang out and another wolverine was dead.
But the faster the wolverine ran, the faster the rock rolled, and by-and-by the little creature began to get very tired, and was sorry he had not left the rock to itself.
And the wolverine laughed and said: 'Oh, that will do just as well'; and began to run down the side of the mountain.
So the wolverine sat down on a heap of dry ferns, and, picking up the apple, he finished it without even asking the mouse's leave.
At last the coat was ready, and the wolverine put it on.
For as the wolverine was older than the mouse, he was accustomed to speak to her in this manner.
Then the wolverine went up close, and struck the rock a blow with his paw, saying: 'Well, will you catch me now?
The bear sank down with a groan, and as her eyes were full of cranberry juice, which completely blinded her, the wolverine took up a sharp knife and stabbed her to the heart.
Unlike the outer shell, this portion of the creature had no proper armor and the wolverine plunged joyfully into the business of the kill, his mate following suit.
For thewolverine male sprang for the horn-shelled shoulders.
As might a cat, the wolverine must have met the shock of that whip-tail stroke relaxed enough to escape serious injury.
The fork-tail's head swung, imitating the movements of the wolverine as it had earlier mimicked the swaying of the disk in the Wyvern's hand.
The wolverine used her claws to hitch her way up the spine of the sea monster, heading for the mountain of blood spouting from behind the head.
The wolverine twisted and whined, but he did not fight for freedom as he would have upon scenting Throg.
The wolverine gasped, opened his eyes, shook his miniature bear head, scattering pellets of sand.
Though the wolverine protested, he at last scrambled in, to hunch at the bottom of the shell, the picture of apprehension.
The Terran pressed his hand on Taggi's head in the one imperative command the wolverine was apt to obey--the order to stay where he was.
Perhaps neither wolverine had expected the full fury of the hound.
Then the wolverine came upslope at a clumsy gallop to Shann.
Then he raised his hand, and the wolverine shuffled off, heading north.
The Terran raised a spear to the ready before he caught a whiff of the pungent scent emitted by a wolverine hot with battle rage.
But the wolverine made no sound, as if he, too, realized that some menace lay beyond the rim of the valley.
These wild animals are now no longer to be seen: it is a rare thing to hear of bears or wolves, and the wolverine and lynx are known only as matters of history in this part of the country.
Yet it is not fierce, like the bark of angry defiance he gives when wolf, or bear, or wolverine is near.
Then the wolverine went up close, and struck the rock a blow with his paw, saying: 'Well, will you catch me NOW?
The Wicked Wolverine One day a wolverine was out walking on the hill-side, when, on turning a corner, he suddenly saw a large rock.
So the wolverine sat down on a heap of dry ferns, and picking up the apple, he finished it without even asking the mouse's leave.
They cracked it but they could not break it," said Iagoo, "and then Ojeeg the Weasel came and the Wolverine helped him to make ready for the trial.
Ojeeg climbed to the top of the mountain, and the Wolverine went with him.
The Wolverine crouched down like a grasshopper on the mountain top, with his legs all drawn up beneath him like a squirrel or a cricket, and he leaped as hard as he was able at the sky.
The wolverine has been an object of fear and revulsion not only to the white man but to the Indian.
Food habits of the wolverine are far from selective.
The breeding habits of the wolverine are not well known, but it is assumed the den is located among rocks in talus slopes.
The wide distribution of thewolverine provides an admirable example of what life zones mean.
At any rate, the normal wolverine is neither one-eyed nor blind.
Thief, predator, and scavenger, the wolverine roams its isolated ranges feared by hunter and hunted alike.
This may refer to the small eyes, so deeply set as to be almost invisible at a little distance, or may date back to the first wolverine taken to Europe from Hudson Bay.
Wolverine Gulo luscus (Latin: having to do with the throat .
In coloration the wolverineshows variation, but with no sharp contrasts.
Illustration: wolverine] The scientific name of the wolverineis interesting.
The wolverine is one of the few animals that seems to take malicious delight in harassing human beings.
The fur of the wolverine was a mixed black and white, but neither black nor white is the word to use.
The garment of wolverine skins, sewed neatly together with thread of sinews, was all the young mother wore.
The wolverine is something wonderful; it laughs at the ages; its bones, found side by side with those of the cave hyena, are the same as those found in its body as it exists to-day.
Every Wolverine who exposed himself was made a target of.
And this man went away from the Wolverine thinking of Ward quite as intently as Ward sometimes thought of him.
She did not soften, except toward Billy Louise, who rode sometimes over from her father's ranch on the Wolverine to the flowery delights of the Cove.
The stage which passed through the Wolverine basin twice a week left scanty mail in the starch-box which Billy Louise had herself nailed to a post nearest the trail.
And Billy Louise gave him instructions about finding a man and sending him up to the Cove at once, and looking after the Wolverine ranch until she came, and having Phoebe send up some clothes for her.
When the second calf was pulled down in spite of the mother's defense, within half a mile of his cabin, Ward postponed a trip he had meant to make to the Wolverine and went out on the trail of the wolves.
When spring came at last, and he rode regretfully back to his claim on Mill Greek, he was not at all the morose Ward Warren who had ridden down to the Wolverine that stormy night in January.
Billy Louise had always loved theWolverine canyon, and its brother, Jones canyon, which branched off from the first.
He had been at the Wolverine a month, and they were pretty well acquainted by now and inclined to friendliness when Ward threw off his moodiness and his air of holding himself ready for some affront which he seemed to expect.
If you should some time ride through a certain portion of Idaho, you may find the tiny valley of the Wolverine and the decaying cabins which prove how impossible it is for a couple to live in three places at once.
When the suspense became maddening, after that, he would ride down to the Wolverine for news.
It did not seem consistent with his haste to leave the Wolverineand his frequent assertion that he must get to work.
