A NIGHT WITH A WOLF.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2080, 4 January 1908, Page 1 (Supplement)

A NIGHT WITH A WOLF.

Little ono, conic to my knee! Hark, how the rain is pouring; Over the roof, in the pitch-black night, Ami the wind in tho woods a-roar-ingl Hush. niv darling, and listen. Then pay for the story with kisses; hat her was lost in the pitch-black night, In iust such a storm as this is! Hi'di up on the lonely mountains, AVhero the wild men watched and w i i ted; Wolves in the forest, and bears in the bush, And l on my path belated. The rain and tho night together Came down, and tho wind came after, Bending tho props of tho pino-tree roof, And snapping many a rafter. I crept along in the darkness, Stunned ami bruised and blinded Crept to a fir with thick-set boughs, Am.i a sheltering rock behind it. There, from the blowing and raining. Crouching, 1 sought to hide me; Something rustled, two greon eyes shone And a wolf lay down beside me. Little one, he not frightened; I and the wolf together, Side l,y side, through the long, long night Hid from the awful weather.

His wot. fur pressed against ni<’; Each of us waniu'fl tlx l other; Each of us felt, in the stormy dark, That beast and man w.is brother.

And when the failin’.' lorest No longer crashed in warning. Each of us went from our hidingplace Forth in tin' wild, wet morning. Darling, kiss me in payment ! Hark, how the wind is roaring! Father's house is a better place AYhen the stormy rain is pouring! l’avird Taylor.