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    Wolf's Head 1911
    Wolf's Head 1911
    Wolf's Head 1911
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    Wolf's Head 1911

    By Mary Noailles Murfree

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Wolf's Head 1911 - Mary Noailles Murfree

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Wolf's Head, by

      Charles Egbert Craddock             (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

      with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org

      Title: Wolf's Head

             1911

      Author: Charles Egbert Craddock             (AKA Mary Noailles Murfree)

      Release Date: November 19, 2007 [EBook #23549]

      Last Updated: January 5, 2013

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WOLF'S HEAD ***

      Produced by David Widger

      WOLF'S HEAD

      By Charles Egbert Craddock

      1911

      It might well be called the country of the outlaw, this vast tract of dense mountain forests and craggy ravines, this congeries of swirling torrents and cataracts and rapids. Here wild beasts lurked out their savage lives, subsisting by fang and prey,—the panther, the bear, the catamount, the wolf,—and like unto them, ferocious and fugitive, both fearsome and afraid, the man with a wolf's head, on which was set a price, even as the State's bounty for the scalps of the ravening brutes.

      One gloomy October afternoon, the zest of a group of sportsmen, who had pitched their camp in this sequestered wilderness, suffered an abatement on the discovery of the repute of the region and the possibility of being summoned to serve on a sheriff's posse in the discharge of the grimmest of duties.

      But he is no outlaw in the proper sense of the term. The phrase has survived, but the fact is obsolete, said Seymour, who was both a prig and a purist, a man of leisure, and bookish, but a good shot, and vain of his sylvan accomplishments. Our law places no man beyond the pale of its protection. He has a constitutional right to plead his case in court.

      What is the reward offered to hale him forth and force him to enjoy that privilege—five hundred dollars? asked Bygrave, who was a newspaper man and had a habit of easy satire.

      Of course he would never suffer himself to be taken alive. Purcell's vocation was that of a broker, and he was given to the discrimination of chances and relative values. "Therefore he is as definitely caput lupinum as any outlaw of old. Nobody would be held accountable for cracking his 'wolf's head' off, in the effort to arrest him for the sake of the five hundred dollars. But, meantime, how does the fellow contrive to live!"

      Jes by his rifle, I reckon, replied the rural gossip whom intrusive curiosity occasionally lured to their camp-fire. Though sence that thar big reward hev been n'ised abroad, I'd think he'd be plumb afraid ter fire a shot. The echoes be mighty peart these dumb, damp fall days.

      The old jeans-clad mountaineer had a

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