Silverspot 



or has some mark by which men can know 

 him, he soon becomes famous in his country, 

 and shows us that the life of a wild animal may 

 be far more interesting and exciting than that 

 of many human beings. 



Of this class were Courtant, the bob-tailed 

 wolf that terrorized the whole city of Pans for 

 about ten years in the beginning of the four- 

 teenth century ; Clubfoot, the lame grizzly bear 

 that left such a terrific record in the San Joaquin 

 Valley of California ; Lobo, the king-wolf of 

 New Mexico, that killed a cow every day for 

 five years, and the Seonee panther that m less 

 than two years killed nearly three hundred 

 human beings-and such also was Silverspot 

 whose history, so far as I could learn it, I shall 

 now briefly tell. 



Silverspot was simply a wise old crow , his 

 name was given because of the silvery white 

 spot that was like a nickel, stuck on his right 

 side, between the eye and the bill, and it was 

 owing to this spot that I was able to know 

 him from the other crows, and put together 

 the parts of his history that came to my 



knowledge. 



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