Badlands Billy 
the clean-cut line of fresh tracks that is leading 
to a wonderful animal, he has long been hunt- 
ing in vain. How King’s eye gleamed as he 
gloated over the sign! 
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RUN DOWN AT LAST 
It was the roughest of all rough riding. It 
was a far longer hunt than we had expected, and 
was full of little incidents, for that endless line 
of marks was a minute history of all that the 
big Wolf had done the night before. Here he 
had circled at the telephone box and looked for 
news; there he had paused to examine an old 
skull; here he had shied off and swung cau- 
tiously up wind to examine something that 
proved to be an old tin can; there at length he 
had mounted a low hill and sat down, probably 
giving the muster-howl, for two Wolves had 
come to him from different directions, and they 
then had descended to the river flat where the 
Cattle would seek shelter during the storm. P 
Here all three had visited a Buffalo skull; 
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