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    Wolf's Head: 1911
    Wolf's Head: 1911
    Wolf's Head: 1911
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    Wolf's Head: 1911

    By Mary Noailles Murfree

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    DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Wolf's Head" (1911) by Mary Noailles Murfree. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDigiCat
    Release dateSep 16, 2022
    ISBN8596547370277
    Wolf's Head: 1911

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      Wolf's Head - Mary Noailles Murfree

      Mary Noailles Murfree

      Wolf's Head

      1911

      EAN 8596547370277

      DigiCat, 2022

      Contact: [email protected]

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      It might well be called the country of the outlaw, this vast tract of dense mountain forests and craggy ravines, this congeries of swirling torrents and cataracts and rapids. Here wild beasts lurked out their savage lives, subsisting by fang and prey—the panther, the bear, the catamount, the wolf—and like unto them, ferocious and fugitive, both fearsome and afraid, the man with a wolf’s head, on which was set a price, even as the State’s bounty for the scalps of the ravening brutes.

      One gloomy October afternoon, the zest of a group of sportsmen, who had pitched their camp in this sequestered wilderness, suffered an abatement on the discovery of the repute of the region and the possibility of being summoned to serve on a sheriff’s posse in the discharge of the grimmest of duties.

      But he is no outlaw in the proper sense of the term. The phrase has survived, but the fact is obsolete, said Seymour, who was both a prig and a purist, a man of leisure, and bookish, but a good shot, and vain of his sylvan accomplishments. Our law places no man beyond the pale of its protection. He has a constitutional right to plead his case in court.

      What is the reward offered to hale him forth and force him to enjoy that privilege—five hundred dollars? asked Bygrave, who was a newspaper man and had a habit of easy satire.

      Of course he would never suffer himself to be taken alive. Purcell’s vocation was that of a broker, and he was given to the discrimination of chances and relative values. "Therefore he is as definitely caput lupinum

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