go by. Then, as his wondering eyes caught 

 glimpses of shadowed glades, and mysterious 

 wooded aisles, and far-off hills and horizons, 

 or wild, pungent smells of fir thicket and 

 cedar swamp drew in upon the wind to his 

 uplifted nostrils, his veins would run hot with 

 an uncomprehended but savage longing for 

 delights which he had never known, for a 

 freedom of which he had never learned or 

 guessed. At such times his muscles would 

 ache and quiver, till he felt like dashing him- 

 self blindly against his bars. And if the 

 halt happened to take place at night, with 

 perhaps a white moon staring in upon him 

 from over a naked hill-top, he would lift his 

 lean muzzle straight up toward the roof 

 of his cage and give utterance to a terrible 

 sound of which he knew not the meaning 

 the long, shrill, gathering cry of the pack. 

 This would rouse all the other beasts to a 

 frenzy of wails and screeches and growls 

 and roars ; till Toomey would have to come 

 and stop his performance by darkening the 

 cage with a tarpaulin. At the sound of 

 Toomey's voice, soothing yet over-mastering, 

 the great wolf would lie down quietly, and 

 the ghostly summons of his far-ravaging 

 fathers would haunt his spirit no more. 

 After one of these long journeys, the show 



