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Here, as we eased up for a moment, a dog-wolf crossed our path, and with snarling lip and shining fangs slunk into the thorn. Oh, for a leash of hounds now! But on we went, catching a glimpse of a grim head peering after us through the thorn a head with blazing, angry eyes, that almost seemed to speak.
My steward hesitated to approach the dog-wolf, and it was all in vain that I assured them that my cheetah was not dangerous. No one would open the cage, and it was carried out into the garden. I asked for a hammer in order to open the door of the cage which had been nailed down, thus keeping the poor cheetah a prisoner.
"Did you speak, Wolf?" perked the Bird. "I said, 'Good riddance," snapped A'tim. "He, he, he!" laughed the Cow-Bird; "your friend is pleasant company, Great Bull." That night the two Outcasts and the Cow-Bird camped together, near the Saskatchewan River; the brown body curled up contentedly on Shag's horn, while the Dog-Wolf slept against his paunch. In the morning the Cow-Bird was gone.
But the manhood was there, as his flawless courage and unconsidered kindness to women and children indicated. But he was self-centred, violent, brutally masterful. The stag caribou and the dog-wolf have the same attitude toward the females of their races. It is a characteristic which is natural to animals and boasted of by civilized men.
Like butchers, the strong-backed Squaws leaped into the arena, its stone floor slippery with blood, and stripped the bodies of their victims. The Indians, their warrior pride holding them aloof from this menial labor, sat and gloried in the mighty Kill. Shag and the Dog-Wolf had heard the din from afar.
In a sober condition he would have come to grief twenty times over, but Fate always protects the toper. Then he strayed into a vast forest; zig-zagged through fens and coppices like an old dog-wolf; tore himself almost to ribbons among the sloe and blackberry bushes, and emerged at last at a ramshackle forest-keeper's hut, the door of which stood wide open.
What were four Wolves to him! Let them come. "This is a Leader!" said the six Cows. "Surely here is no danger." "No danger," repeated Shag, hearing their voices; "stand close and there is no danger." "Oo-oo-oo-ah, wah, wah, wah!" howled the Wolves and barked the Dog-Wolf, as almost to the stockade of heavy heads they rushed.
The first question the latter asked when he came back was: "Is there a beast or a bird in the world whose Latin name is canis-lupus?" Don threw himself back upon the sofa and laughed until the room rang again. "Is there a beast or a bird in the world whose English name is dog-wolf?" he asked, as soon as he could speak.
"I am wise enough not to eat of the Death Flower, by the knowledge of our kind. But you can prove all this, Herd Leader let the Dog-Wolf eat of this medicine plant, if it be harmless." This clever idea pleased the Bull mightily. "Yes, A'tim," he cried; "the Cow, who is but a Buffalo, and, of course, has not the great Wolf wisdom, may be mistaken.
His ponderous mind worked slowly over the tortuous puzzle. "I am a stranger here," he said, "and know little of these herbs, but this Dog-Wolf, who is also an Outcast like myself, has trailed from the Southland with me, and we have been even as Brothers.
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