Author of "The Feet of the Furtive," "Kings in Exile," etc.
ILLUSTRATED
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1916
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Copyright, 1914,
By the Associated Sunday Magazines.
Copyright, 1915,
By the National Sunday Magazine,
By the Red Book Corporation, and
By the Illustrated Sunday Magazine.
Copyright, 1916,
By the International Magazine Company.
Copyright, 1916,
By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
Set up and electrotyped. Published November, 1916.
CONTENTS
PAGE
The Black Boar of Lonesome Water [1]
The Dog That Saved the Bridge [33]
The Calling of the Lop-horned Bull [53]
The Aigrette [77]
The Cabin in the Flood [90]
The Brothers of the Yoke [115]
The Trailers [136]
Cock-crow [154]
The Ledge on Bald Face [179]
The Morning of the Silver Frost [201]
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
He struggled frantically to drag himself up again upon the ledge [Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
The black boar had wandered so far into the wilderness that he was safe from pursuit [10]
He only knew his lines were close ahead, and he must reach them [50]
Black and huge against the pallid radiance towered a moose bull [56]
The mother egret flapped blindly upon the top of the water [84]
"This ain't no menagerie we've got here, Tom. It's a Noah's Ark, that's what it be!" [102]
He launched himself into the battle [132]
Leaping upwards and striking downwards with his destroying heels [160]