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Animal Heroes
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Ernest Thompson Seton
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The
German
shouted:
"Now
watch
and
see
that
Wolf
go
up
in
the
air."
In
a
moment
the
runners
were
together.
Both
recoiled,
neither
went
up
in
the
air,
but
the
white
Dog
rolled
over
with
a
fearful
gash
in
her
shoulder--out
of
the
fight,
if
not
killed.
Ten
seconds
later
the
Blue-spot
arrived,
open-mouthed.
This
meeting
was
as
quick
and
almost
as
mysterious
as
the
first.
The
animals
barely
touched
each
other.
The
gray
one
bounded
aside,
his
head
out
of
sight
for
a
moment
in
the
flash
of
quick
movement.
Spot
reeled
and
showed
a
bleeding
flank.
Urged
on
by
the
men,
he
assaulted
again,
but
only
to
get
another
wound
that
taught
him
to
keep
off.
Now
came
the
keeper
with
four
more
huge
Dogs.
They
turned
these
loose,
and
the
men
armed
with
clubs
and
lassos
were
closing
to
help
in
finishing
the
Wolf,
when
a
small
boy
came
charging
over
the
plain
on
a
Pony.
He
leaped
to
the
ground
and
wriggling
through
the
ring
flung
his
arms
around
the
Wolf's
neck.
He
called
him
his
"Wolfie
pet,"
his
"dear
Wolfie"--the
Wolf
licked
his
face
and
wagged
its
tail--then
the
child
turned
on
the
crowd
and
through
his
streaming
tears,
he--Well
it
would
not
do
to
print
what
he
said.
He
was
only
nine,
but
he
was
very
old-fashioned,
as
well
as
a
rude
little
boy.
He
had
been
brought
up
in
a
low
saloon,
and
had
been
an
apt
pupil
at
picking
up
the
vile
talk
of
the
place.
He
cursed
them
one
and
all
and
for
generations
back;
he
did
not
spare
even
his
own
father.
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