Badlands Billy 
over his newspaper, and get all the latest news. 
He can swing over the ground and have the 
minutest information of every living creature 
that has walked there within many hours. His 
nose even tells which way it ran, and in a 
word renders a statement of every animal that 
recently crossed his trail, whence it came, and 
whither it went. 
That power had Duskymane in the high- 
est degree; his broad, moist nose was evVi- 
dence of it to all who are judges of such 
things. Added to this, his frame was of un- 
usual power and endurance, and last, he had 
early learned a deep distrust of everything 
strange, and, call it what we will, shyness, 
wariness or suspicion, it was worth more to him 
than all his cleverness. It was this as much 
as his physical powers that made a success of 
his life. Might is right in wolf-land, and 
Duskymane and his mother had been driven 
out of Sentinel Butte. But it was a very de- 
lectable land and he kept drifting back to his 
native mountain. One or two big Wolves there 
resented his coming. They drove him off sev- 
eral times, yet each time he returned he was 
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