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animals he has come to know so intimately, and whose traits he is 
thus able to depict so successfully with both pen and brush. To him 
“animals are creatures with wants and feelings differing in degree 
only from our own” ; this being the case, “they surely have their 
rights.” “ Man has nothing that the animals have not at least a 
vestige of; the animals have nothing that man does not in some 
degree share.” These sentiments are the keynote of the book. His 
animals are treated as individual personalities, and through this in- 
dividuality of treatment we get a deeper insight into the life history 
of the species than if, in the place of “ Lobo, the King of Currumpaw,”’ 
he had given us a long dissertation on the natural history of the wolf, 
or, in place of “ Raggylug, the Story of a Cottontail,” he had treated 
of the life history of cottontails in general. 
The eight “ stories” in this book treat of : (1) “ Lobo, the King of 
Currumpaw,” a famous wolf of the Currumpaw region of northern 
New Mexico, which for years, as leader of a pack of outlaws, evaded 
capture, meantime making heavy inroads upon the young calves, 
colts, and sheep of the ranchmen. His cunning, his heroism, and 
his pathetic ending are most effectively recounted. (2) “Silverspot, 
the Story of a Crow,” purports to be the individual history of a crow 
that had his home in the neighborhood of Toronto, and which was 
distinguishable from other crows by an albinistic spot of white on 
the side of his head in front of the eye. (3) “ Raggylug, the Story of 
a Cottontail Rabbit.” “ Raggylug” was distinguishable from his 
fellows by a slit in one ear. (4) “Bingo, the Story of My Dog,” 
relates to a Collie dog, remarkable for his intelligence, strength, 
courage, and faithfulness to his master. (5) “ The Springfield Fox ” 
is a tale of the intelligence and cunning of a pair of foxes, and of the 
pathetic love of the mother fox for her unfortunate offspring. (6) 
“The Pacing Mustang” gives the life of a wild black stallion of the 
Currumpaw region, renowned for his sagacity and endurance, which 
ends, like the other stories, in tragedy. ‘The fact that these 
stories are true is the reason why all are tragic. The life of a 
wild animal a/ways has a tragic end,’ says our author, for which 
statement there is a large amount of evidence. (7) “Wully, the 
Story of a Yaller Dog,” is composite, relating to two mongrels raised 
as sheepdogs, which were faithful and efficient protectors of their 
flocks by day, and bloodthirsty, treacherous monsters at night, 
killing for mere pleasure not only sheep but other dogs, they leading 
double lives, like many a human monster. (8) “ Redruff, the Story 
of a Don Valley Partridge,” is a real character, and his somewhat 
