Boy life on the prairie . 1^. /i-^J^ >^> ?^ Ct>. check to the fierce winds, and yet, fast as they grew,they were too slow for the settler. It seemed as thoughthey would never grow tall enough to shade him.(They stand there now with bodies big as his own —reaching out their arms like yawning young giants.) Lincoln and Owen soon discovered that the prairieswere populous with a sort of wolf, half-way betweenthe coyote of the plains and the gray wolf of the tim-ber land. They were called simply prairie else, save an occasional deer or antelope, re-mained of the splendid gam
Boy life on the prairie . 1^. /i-^J^ >^> ?^ Ct>. check to the fierce winds, and yet, fast as they grew,they were too slow for the settler. It seemed as thoughthey would never grow tall enough to shade him.(They stand there now with bodies big as his own —reaching out their arms like yawning young giants.) Lincoln and Owen soon discovered that the prairieswere populous with a sort of wolf, half-way betweenthe coyote of the plains and the gray wolf of the tim-ber land. They were called simply prairie else, save an occasional deer or antelope, re-mained of the splendid game animals which had oncecovered these flowery and sunlit savannahs. Of theelk, nothing remained but his great bleached antlers. 128 Boy Life on the Prairie gleaming white in the grass, and only deep-worn trailsin the swales of the unbroken prairie marked the placeswhere the mighty bison had trod. But the wolf, moreadaptable, remained to prey, like the fox, on the smallcattle of the incoming settler. Mr, Stewart, during the second season, planted a fie
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