kraal, and the wolves growled sullenly as they took their fill, they

who had been hungry for many days. Now the brethren met, and laughed

in their wolf joy, because they had slaughtered those who were sent

out to slaughter. They called to the wolves, bidding them search the

huts, and the wolves entered the huts as dogs enter a thicket, and

killed those who lurked there, or drove them forth to be slain

without. Presently a man, great and tall, sprang from the last of the

huts, where he had hidden himself, and the wolves outside rushed on