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Shag was the first to awaken; the night's banquet caused the morning to come slowly to A'tim. The pulling cut of Shag's heavy jaws on the crisp grass awoke the Dog-Wolf. He yawned heavily, and eyed the old Bull with sleepy indifference. Ghur-h-h-h! what a plaintive figure the aged Buffalo was, to be sure. "Good-morning, Brother," whuffed Shag, his mouth full of grass; "where are you going?"
When followed the phantom retreats, glaring at its pursuer, and either sinks into the ground with a harrowing shriek, or disappears in some equally mysterious manner. In Norfolk and Cambridgeshire this spectre is named the "Shuck," the local name for Shag and is reported to haunt churchyards and other dreary spots.
"This hollow trail leads to water, most assuredly," answered Shag, stepping leisurely into a path that was like an old plow furrow in a hay meadow. "Even this shows how many were my people once." The Buffalo sighed.
'Round hoofed, short jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eyes, small head, and nostril wide, High crest, short ears, straight legs, and passing strong, Thin mane, thick tale, broad buttock, tender hide."
"But if he did, and got the cross, even if he didn't kill Mrs. Darcy, how in the world could he get the cross back to her when the police took it away from him and when the last I saw of it it was in the police headquarters safe? "This certainly gets me! Oh Shag! is that you?" called the colonel as he heard some one moving out in the hall near his door. "Yes, sah, Colonel!"
Also, there will be much meat warm to a cold stomach to-night;" and he licked his chops greedily. "I don't like it," muttered Shag; "the Palefaces, with their many-breathed Fire-sticks, have killed my people, and have driven them up from the South, and now they are gathered together in a few mighty Herds such as this.
You remember old Trusty, my shag house-dog; I shall never forget it while I live; the poor creature was blind with age, and could scarce crawl after us to the door; he went however as far as the gooseberry-bush that you may remember stood on the left side of the yard; he was wont to bask in the sun there; when he had reached that spot, he stopped; we went on: I called to him; he wagged his tail, but did not stir: I called again; he lay down: I whistled, and cried Trusty; he gave a short howl, and died!
"I'se done got 'em," was the chuckling answer, and Shag pulled out from under his coat a bundle of papers that he had been hiding until he saw that it was safe to display them. And while Shag was occupied with the rod, the colonel read the papers, which contained little he did not already know. The next day he went fishing.
I am no Wolf, Shag; I am A'tim, which meaneth 'a Dog, in the talk of the Crees." "Even so, Brother," said Shag, "how comes it that thou art a half-breed Wolf at all?" "That is also of Man's evil ways, Brother Bull thinking to change everything that was as it should be before he came.
The colonel glanced at Shag, and then, drawing from an inner pocket the little green book, read: "Hunting is a game for princes and noble persons. It hath been highly prized in all ages. It was one of the qualifications " The detective snapped the book shut, and tossed it on the bed. "Shag!" he exploded. "Yes, sah, Colonel." "You've often heard me talk of fishing and hunting, haven't you?"
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