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I've got friends in 'em now," he went on, as if confiding a secret; "sometimes a fox will leave me what he ain't ate I've known a wolverine git a dum sight more human than them that's been huntin' me. Him and me shared the same cave he got to know me he was a great fisher. I got him out of a trap twice he see I warn't goin' to hurt him."
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. But for all that the distrust never quite left his eyes, and there were times like this when he was absolutely oblivious to her presence.
Bears of various species and colors, many varieties of the fox, the wolf, the beaver, the otter, the marten, the raccoon, the badger, the wolverine, the mink, the lynx, the muskrat, the woodchuck, the rabbit, the hare, and the squirrel, are natives of North America.
"Only one, my son, for even one wolverine can destroy traps and game for twenty or thirty miles around; and the reason the brute is so persistent in following a hunter's fur path is that it usually affords the wolverine an abundance of food. Then, when the hunter finds the brute is bent on steady mischief, it is time for him to turn from all other work and hunt the thief.
Grod made the cobra, the cruel wolverine, and the thrice-cruel tiger; we study the animals and deal with them adequately; but some of us do not study our human cobras and wolverines and tigers. I scarcely ever knew of a case of a convict who would not moan about his own injuries and his own innocence.
So they were comforted by this, and ever after when they overslept themselves they called it "good medicine." The wolves and wolverine were already skinned, and so as soon as the boys had had their breakfasts, which had long been waiting them, they set off to visit the beaver dam.
Maybe she would not want to bring her mother so far off the main road. In that case, he would go down and put that Wolverine place in shape. He had no squeamishness about living on her ranch instead of his own, if she wanted it that way. He meant to be better "hooked up" financially than she was and have more cattle, when he put the gold ring on her finger.
This excessive caution on the part of the little girl vastly amused Souwanas. Then he told them that Nanahboozhoo turned Gray Wolf into a dog and made him draw home his heavy load of meat. A Novel Race: the Wolverine and the Rock How the Wolverine's Legs were Shortened A Punishment for Conceit.
There were deer and bear in the depths of the green ocean, and an occasional wolverine. Sometimes at night a red fox would circle about the clearing and bark querulously, the cry contrasting oddly with the notes of whippoorwills and the calls of loons.
'I am afraid that you were not taught to speak the truth, retorted the rock. 'You need not speak like that, for I have SEEN you walking, replied the wolverine, 'though I am quite sure that you could never catch ME! and he ran a little distance and then stopped to see if the rock was pursuing him; but, to his vexation, the rock was still in the same place.
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