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Title: The Way of the Wild

Author: F. St. Mars

Illustrator: Harry Rountree

Release Date: January 21, 2006 [EBook #17567]

Language: English

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[Frontispiece: "Jaws, monstrous and wet, grabbing at him in enraged
confusion"]

THE WAY OF THE WILD

BY

F. ST. MARS

WITH TWELVE ILLUSTRATIONS BY HARRY ROUNTREE

NEW YORK

FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY

PUBLISHERS

COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY

PUBLISHED IN ENGLAND UNDER THE TITLE "PINION AND PAW"

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

CONTENTS

I GULO THE INDOMITABLE
II BLACKIE AND CO.
III UNDER THE YELLOW FLAG
IV NINE POINTS OF THE LAW
V PHARAOH
VI THE CRIPPLE
VII "SET A THIEF"----
VIII THE WHERE IS IT?
IX LAWLESS LITTLE LOVE
X THE KING'S SON
XI THE HIGHWAYMAN OF THE MARSH
XII THE FURTIVE FEUD
XIII THE STORM PIRATE
XIV WHEN NIGHTS WERE COLD
XV FATE AND THE FEARFUL
XVI THE EAGLES OF LOCH ROYAL
XVII RATEL, V.C.
XVIII THE DAY

ILLUSTRATIONS

"Jaws, monstrous and wet, grabbing at him in enraged confusion" . . .
_Frontispiece_

"The owl had lost a foot on the turn

"A shrew-mouse, thirsting for blood, but who got poison instead"

"This one had simply streaked out of the night from nowhere"

"Landed full upon the dumbfounded water-vole--splash!"

"A 'silver tabby' floated among the twigs, looking for him"

"An angry eagle-owl"

"Turning over and over, in one long, sickening dive back to earth"

"That little black-headed fellow doing the stalking act upon that
python was great"

"Shooting straight upwards on the top of what appeared to have been a
submarine mine in a mild form"

"He clutched, and tore, and gulped, and gorged"

"All allowed that he was the pluckiest beast on earth"

THE WAY OF THE WILD

I

GULO THE INDOMITABLE

If his father had been a brown bear and his mother a badger, the result
in outward appearance wou