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ANOTHER WOLF STORY I " WOLF ! Wolf ! Wolf ! " Three farmers were walking across a field and looking eagerly for tracks in the soft ground . One carried a gun , one had a pitchfork , and the third had an ax . " Wolf ! Wolf ! Wolf ! " they cried , as they met another farmer coming over the hill . " Where ? where ? " he asked . " We don't know , " was the answer , " but we saw her tracks down there by the brook . It's the same old wolf that has been skulking around here all winter . " " She killed three of my lambs last night , " said the one whose name was David Brown . " She's killed as many as twenty since the winter began , " said Thomas Tanner . " How do you know that it is only one beast that does all this mischief ? " asked the fourth farmer , whose name was Israel Putnam . " Because the tracks are always the same , " answered David Brown . " They show that three toes have been lost from the left forefoot . " " She's been caught in a trap some time , I guess , " said Putnam . " Samuel Stark saw her the other morning , " said Tanner . " He says she was a monster ; and she was running straight toward the hills with a little lamb in her mouth . They say she has a family of young wolves up there ; and that is why she kills so many lambs . " " Here are the tracks again , " said Putnam . They could be seen very plainly , for here the ground was quite muddy . The four men followed them for some distance , and then lost them on the hillside . " Let us call the neighbors together and have a grand wolf hunt to - morrow , " said Putnam . " We must put an end to this killing of lambs . " All the other men agreed to this , and they parted . II The next day twenty men and boys came together for the grand wolf hunt . They tracked the beast to the mouth of a cave , far up on the hills . They shouted and threw stones into the cave . But the wolf was too wise to show herself . She lay hidden among some rocks , and nothing could make her stir . " I will fetch her out , " said Israel Putnam . The opening to the cave was only a narrow hole between two rocks . Putnam stooped down and looked in . It was very dark there , and he could not see anything . Then he tied a rope around his waist and said to his friends , " Take hold of the other end , boys . When I jerk it , then pull me out as quickly as you can . " He got down on his hands and knees and crawled into the cave . He crawled very slowly and carefully . At last he saw something in the darkness that looked like two balls of fire . He knew that these were the eyes of the wolf . The wolf gave a low growl and made ready to meet him . Putnam gave the rope a quick jerk and his friends pulled him out in great haste . They feared that the wolf was upon him ; but he wished only to get his gun .
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