Badlands Billy 
The wolver rode up to the sorry, tattered, 
bleeding She-wolf in the trap. He raised his 
rifle and soon the struggling stopped. 
The wolver read the trail and the signs about, 
and remembering those he had read before, he 
divined that this was the Wolf with the great 
Cub—the She-wolf of Sentinel Butte. 
Duskymane heard the ‘“‘crack”’ as he scurried 
off into cover. He could scarcely know what 
it meant, but he never saw his kind old foster- 
mother again. ‘Thenceforth he must face the 
world alone. 
VII 
THE YOUNG WOLF WINS A PLACE AND FAME 
Instinct is no doubt a Wolf's first and best 
guide, but gifted parents are a great start in 
life. The dusky-maned cub had had a mother 
of rare excellence and he reaped the advantage 
of all her cleverness. He had inherited an exqui- 
site nose and had absolute confidence in its ad- 
monitions. Mankind has difficulty in recog- 
nizing the power of nostrils. A Gray-wolf can 
glance over the morning wind as a man does 
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