Raymond S. Spears

“ The meat fell upon the trap that had been set under the drips, and for a moment the dull clank of closing jaws gave Two Toes the wolf equivalent of heart failure. He was not caught, however, and the closed trap lay in plain view. Traps in plain view are not dreaded. It is the unseen trap that catches wolves! ”

“ Suddenly the fires of the damned struck through him, and Two Toes saw another of his mates tumbling and whirling wildly in the snow. The other wolves set upon the unfortunate victim, trying to steady him, but they only succeeded in biting him. He struggled deliriously till he fell and died.
Two Toes and the survivors fled from the place as accursed. A human—the man whose scent they knew so well—had placed another fatal temptation in their path. Knock Knee moved up a place in the line of the pack. The dead wolf had once helped to eat a man, and now a man had slain him! ”

“ They said they would eat the hams off him, and would carry his bones out into the dark places to bury, for a chew some other time. In this grim badinage a wolf who had once helped to kill a trapper took the lead. ”