Courage by Joseph G. Udvari

Author:Joseph G. Udvari
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: TheEbookSale Publishing

CHAPTER NINE

There were occasional rain showers, but they managed to keep reasonably dry in the tent and under the protection of the large spruce tree. After every fishing trip they left a few fish for the injured wolf.

Mary was getting much better and one day they decided that they could all go fishing.

“If we hear a plane we’ll have to run like heck back here to light the signal fire,” Jim said.

“I can handle that dad,” Lucas piped up.

Deep down Jim was really worried, for two weeks they hadn’t seen or heard any search planes and even the commercial flight was hit and miss.

They got to the stream and again were catching fish just as fast as they dropped their lines in the water. When they had 15 large trout, they decided it was time to head back. Again, as before, they left fish for the injured animal.

“Dad why are there so many fish here but when we go fishing at home we hardly ever catch any?” Lucas asked.

“I think it’s because this is an ideal location for fish, and there are no fisherman here so the fish thrive.”

Jim was looking at paw prints without making it obvious. He recognized deer tracks, but next to those were large paw prints that he believed might be bear prints.

Jim walked behind Mary, checking her walk to see if her leg still bothered her. She appeared to be walking without any difficulty.

“Mary, you seem to be almost fully recovered. The last time I checked your leg, it looked good, obviously healing. Do you have any pain when you take a deep breath?”

“I feel fine. The leg sometimes bothers me, but I can live with that. Maybe you should have been a doctor, you did such a good job with me.”

As they were leaving the stream, the injured animal slunk out of the brush with its tail between its legs and took the fish.

“That’s our gray wolf, it must have been injured by the pack or a bear,” Jim said.

“Grandpa is the wolf mean?” Alicia inquired.

“Wolves are very interesting. They are social animals that hunt and live as a pack. A single wolf may join a bunch of wild dogs, or if it’s lonely it may even befriend humans at times.”

“I always thought they were just mean,” she said.

“They can be, but there are stories where a wolf pack will adopt a human baby and raise him as their own, like Mowgli in The Jungle Book. I don’t know how true that is, but wolves are probably the smartest wild animals around.

When they hunt in packs, each has a chore; one will chase the animal they want to catch until it gets tired while others wait at the appointed spot to bring the animal down. Even their feeding is based on hierarchy; the most important in the pack will feed first and so on.”

“Most important?”

“Yes, the leader male is the most important in a pack, he’s the ‘big daddy.’

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