The Black Wolf Pack

s my intention that night at supper to lead up to the apparition I had seen on the cliffs that day. With a substantial suppe

new full well that the setting sun, the mist and the atmospheric condition had all contributed to throwing a greatly enlarged shadow of the real Wild Hun

not adroit enough to steer the conversation in that direction, for Big Pe

home all I could have carried if I had been a game hog," I said, as I stirred th

rt game an' they be interesting to the tenderfuts in the States. The real sportsman is the pot-hunter. Yes, that's jist what I mean, a pot-hunter-he's out 'cause the camp kettle is empty, and it's up agin him to fill it or starve. Now then, this fellow is not after blood; nor trophies, nor is he hunting for the market. It's self-preservation with him, that's what it is. He's an

ep of the panther, the strength of the buffalo and the courage of a lion. She is always generous with her favorites. Ah! lad, she kin make your blood

apsed into silence, turned his attention to his tin platter, examining it carefully, and then wit

ely surrounded by a practically unsurmountable barrier of rugged cliffs and mountains negotiable, as far as I knew, not even by the sure-footed mountain sheep and goats which

d Hunter gits in an' out and brings his wolf pack along too. He knows

n trail him,

wolf pack clingin' to his

meanwhile we built a more or less open faced permanent camp and Big Pete initiated me in

his buckskin suit was apparently as clean and fresh as it was on the day I first met him. There was no magic in this. Big Pete knew how to clamber all da

who never ran to seed no matter how long he might be separated from the city tailor shops, for Pe

hing and darning. Many a morning my own toilet consisted of a face wash at the spring, but m

hinook for wolf and I took so much pride in my promotion that I would not have ch

was no disputing that Big Pete was Hy-as-ty-ee and I agreed to wear whatever clothes he should make for me, and can say with no fear of dispute that if that ancient ch

appers' stores, bone needles made from the splints of deer's legs, elk

f two parts salt-petre to one of alum and applied the pulverized compound to the fleshy side of the skins, then doubling the raw side of the hides together he r

there adhered to the hide. After this was done to his satisfaction we both took hold and rubbed, and mauled and worked the ski

the beautiful long fringes at the seams; but the whole garment was cut,

g time in solemn thought before he was ready to begin work on the

jist cut out the new ones from the old uns." In vain I pleaded with him to make my trousers like his own;