Raymond S. Spears

Name: The Wolf Pack (Spears) — II. Pretty Shells Resumes Possession
Author: Raymond S. Spears

The Wolf Pack (Spears) — II. Pretty Shells Resumes Possession (1926)

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“The Wolf Pack (Spears) — II. Pretty Shells Resumes Possession”, published in 1926, is a work by Raymond S. Spears. It explores elements such as Running Voice, wolves and cabin.

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Raymond S. Spears, The Wolf Pack (Spears) — II. Pretty Shells Resumes Possession (1926)

“ The wolves were so close behind that she fancied she could hear the swish of their passing, too. There was a splash across the lake in the reflections of the trees. She had a glimpse of moonshine sparklings. She could see the shapes of the wolves when they came out of the shadows, like dark wraiths on the white sand in the gray light. She heard the snort of the deer’s labored breathing, and then a sharp barking of the pursuers as for an instant they seemed to be consulting what they should do now. ”

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Raymond S. Spears, The Wolf Pack (Spears) — II. Pretty Shells Resumes Possession (1926)

“ She worked with steadfast patience, giving thought to each thing she did. She marshaled all her forces to fasten a bead the size of a pinhead on a gauntlet, or to drag to her cabin the long pole of a dead pine which took all her strength. Her watchfulness and knowledge were Indian, but her foresight and stores of food and firewood were white. She grained and knuckled the brains of the deer she had killed into the stretched skin, converting it into a beautiful piece of soft, tawny buckskin. ”

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Raymond S. Spears, The Wolf Pack (Spears) — II. Pretty Shells Resumes Possession (1926)

“ She felt the crowding in of the dark woods whose shadows fell upon her cabin.
In the morning she went along the edge of the timber on the south side of the lake and found where the deer had been ambushed by the clever brutality of the wolf band. The deer had landed on a sand spit, partly grown to brush and shrubs. As the animal surged toward the cover of the woods the leader of the pack cut in from behind and doubtlessly had hamstrung the tired buck. And there the other wolves had charged in from the shadows to finish and devour. ”

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Raymond S. Spears, The Wolf Pack (Spears) — II. Pretty Shells Resumes Possession (1926)

“ The peaceful atmosphere, the rare and lovely sensation of safety and complaisance had been shattered by the wolves’ deer hunt. The hermit Indian woman retreated behind her barred door and sat wrapped in a robe before the fireplace in which she heaped up an armful of wood. The omen was only too significant. When lobos come through it means trouble. Even great bears listen with ill patience to those scoundrels.
The pack was intact. She had heard every voice, counted six different brutes by the vibrations of their throats. ”

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Raymond S. Spears, The Wolf Pack (Spears) — II. Pretty Shells Resumes Possession (1926)

“ Her tragedy of the wilderness had never been solved. The scoundrel who had assassinated Running Voice, robbing him of furs and money belt, was still abroad unnamed and unsuspected—bad.
Running Voice was shot down from behind, with no chance for his life. He had never in his life harmed any man. His good nature had not saved him from the bullet of a coward, who fled like the shadow of a passing cloud. Pretty Shells could never understand why her man had been taken from her. ”

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Raymond S. Spears, The Wolf Pack (Spears) — II. Pretty Shells Resumes Possession (1926)

“ She heard the clatter of antlers where they struck small second-growth holes. And a minute later the pound of bounding hooves drummed on the night wind as the frantic quarry raced for water in which to cover its trail. ”

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Raymond S. Spears, The Wolf Pack (Spears) — II. Pretty Shells Resumes Possession (1926)

“ Having performed her tasks, some which the modified skilfulness of civilization made pleasant and easy, and others to which she gave the perfect savage taste which they required, she would read an hour or two in her books, embroider and bead, seek a rabbit for a potpie or a wild goose for a pot roast—when the big fellows arrived on their south-bound flights. ”

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Raymond S. Spears, The Wolf Pack (Spears) — II. Pretty Shells Resumes Possession (1926)

“ And she had killed meat for the kettle, peltry for the fur buyer, and dried sinews with which to sew soft buckskin and had fastened beads to knife sheaths or shapely moccasins. She had handled all the furs her husband caught, dressing them each skin according to its hair or fur. And though she usually had accompanied Running Voice over his distant trap-lines, tending the traps, she had also run her own short loops around the ponds and up the mountain gulches near home. She need depend on no man now. ”

Raymond S. Spears

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