jump at a woodcutter‘s campfire, and hasburned his feet," said Father Wolf with agrunt. "Tabaqui is with him."
"Something is coming uphill," said MotherWolf, twitching one ear. "Get ready."
The bushes rustled a little in the thicket,
and Father Wolf dropped with his haunchesunder him, ready for his leap. Then, if youhad been watching, you would have seenthe most wonderful thing in the world—thewolf checked in mid-spring. He made hisbound before he saw what it was he wasjumping at, and then he tried to stophimself. The result was that he shot upstraight into the air for four or five feet,
landing almost where he left ground.