Badlands Billy 
escape. When the wolver retired with his 
scalps he did not know that the biggest of all 
the Cubs, was still in the den, and even had he 
waited about for two hours, he might have 
been no wiser. Three hours later the sun 
went down and there was a slight scratching 
afar in the hole; first two little gray paws, then 
a small black nose appeared in a soft sand-pile 
to one side of the den. At length the Cub came 
forth from his hiding. He had been frightened 
by the attack on the den; now he was per- 
plexed by its condition. 
It was thrice as large as it had been and open 
at the top now. Lying near were things that 
smelled like his brothers and sisters, but they 
were repellent to him. He was filled with fear 
as he sniffed at them, and sneaked aside into a 
thicket of grass, as a Night-hawk boomed over 
his head. He crouched all night in that 
thicket. He did not dare to go near the den, 
and knew not where else he could go. The 
next morning when two Vultures came swoop- 
ing down on the bodies, the Wolf-cub ran off 
in the thicket, and seeking its deepest cover, 
was led down a ravine to a wide valley. Sud- 
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