Give
us your paw, Joe." Joe shook hands with him reluctantly, and then
wiped a flood of tears from his face.
"He told me to put some asafetida on my hoots, and said I could then
kill more wolves," said Joe; "and it came within an ace of making them
kill me."
"It was very wrong to do so, Sneak," said Boone, "and the boxing you
got for it was not amiss."
"I believe I think so myself," said Sneak. "But it did make him kill
more wolves after all--jest look at 'em all around here!"
Joe soon recovered entirely from the effects of his swing, his fright,
and his anger, and looked with something like satisfaction on his many
trophies lying round him; and when he disengaged his musket from the
bough of the tree, he regarded it with affection.
They moved homeward, entirely content with the result of the
excursion. Boone explained the reason why so many of the wolves were
congregated about the island. He stated that the vines and bushes on
which the deer feed in the winter were abundant and nutritious in the
low lands along the river, and that great numbers of them repaired
thither at that season of the year.
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