The Way of the Wild

But that was not the worst of it, for she was longer than the enemy, a bit, and might have put up a good fight--she had fought for her life, as a matter of course, ever since sh...

He crept and he crept and he crept across that absolutely bare, flat ground, with never a tuft of fur or a feather of a single live thing upon it to be seen, till one might have...

Thrushes bang their worms about to make them see sense and give in; they do it many times. Blackie banged his giant only a little once or twice, and then not savagely, like a th...

She saw the white wolf leap, beheld his wrenching side-stroke at the terrified horse's throat, heard the horse scream, and watched it bound forward. Followed another leap of the...

Putting personal appearance aside, however, this feathered one, who dared to shatter the slumber of the everlasting wilderness, seemed to be under the impression that he was of...

Mesomelas side-stepped, and neatly chopped--a terrible, wrenching bite--at his hindleg in passing. It fetched him over, and he lay still, the moon shining on his side, doubly an...

Now, books and men have said that friend hedgehog fears only two things: gypsies and badgers--who eat him. I should not be surprised at anything the "gyp" did; nor, to this day,...

A snap, a thump, and he was bouncing over and over, with an air-rifle bullet in his thigh. It was a blow that knocked him half-silly, and he was down before he knew, but only fo...

Once he came upon a wild cat laying scientific siege to a party of grouse. The grouse were nowhere to be seen; nor was the wild cat, after Gulo announced his intention to break...

The surprise was in what followed. Perhaps the bull-gnu kicked our ratel badly as he lurched to his feet, jerked from half-sleep into violent collision with he knew not what. Pe...

Two minutes later, a late leopard, returning to his lair after a blank night's hunt, saw the tail of the female genet, who was leading, disappear into a hollow tree. The male ha...

Allowing one minute for the passing of whoever rustled that leaf, and a cloud-shadow, and there he was again, back at the gall, his shining eyes, that mirrored the moon, being t...

The Chieftain's wife had jerked her head and sneezed. At least, she had yanked her cranium quick as quick, and made a noise. It seemed like a sneeze. For the rest, she remained...

For a few seconds there followed an awful struggle--great wings beating mightily downwards, beak hammering, and fangs meeting the hammerings with audible clashings. It seemed th...

And then, as he suddenly came, the watcher, had there been one, would have looked at him expectantly, for an eagle, bristling with weapons, so to speak, fierce-eyed, mighty, and...

Upon an hour she would appear, dropping, hawk-like and terrible, out of the sun-glare, and neatly pick up a soft and juicy caterpillar from a cabbage-stalk. Upon another hour sh...

A little pile of mussel, winkle, and shore-crab shells, and the backbone of what had been a stranded fish, close to the mouth of the hole, showed the rat's account-book to date;...

The lean night wind next evening came down, and day went out almost imperceptibly. Blackness grew under the furze caverns, and the last glimpse of the estuary faded away in a st...

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 LIT...

And you think that the mere shore crabs could be nothing to him. But a few hundred ravening shore crabs, with their lives for sale--all digging pieces out of you in the dark--ar...

Antagonists decide in the insect world like a flash of light, and quick as thought they act. The spider attacked now so quickly that she seemed to have vanished, and she met--ja...

The third mystery thing clipped three feathers from his back as he ran, bolted for dear life, crouching low--even then he would not rise--for the hedge. He got there alive, if n...