Title:  Lobo, Rag and Vixen Being The Personal Histories Of Lobo, Redruff, Raggylug & Vixen

Author:  Ernest Seton-Thompson

Release Date:  December 1, 2004 [EBook #14226]

Language:  English

Character set encoding:  ASCII

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LOBO, RAG, AND VIXEN

AND PICTURES

BY

ERNEST SETON-THOMPSON

Author of “Wild animals I have known,” “Art anatomy
of animals,” Etc.

BEING THE PERSONAL HISTORIES OF

Lobo
Redruff
Raggylug &
Vixen

New York
Charles SCRIBNER’S sons
1908

NOTE TO THE READER

These Stories, selected from those published in “Wild Animals I Have Known,” are true histories of the animals described, and are intended to show how their lives are lived.

Though the lower animals have no language in the full sense as we understand it, they have a system of sounds, signs, touches, tastes, and smells that answers the purpose of language, and I merely translate this, when necessary, into English._

     ERNEST SETON-THOMPSON

144 Fifth Avenue, New York
May 7, 1899_

ILLUSTRATIONS

Facing
page

Lobo and Blanca . . . . . .  18
Redruff saving Runtie . . .  60
Mammy!  Mammy! . . . . . . .  78
They tussled and fought . . 126

LOBO

THE KING OF CURRUMPAW

I

Currumpaw is a vast cattle range in northern New Mexico.  It is a land of rich pastures and teeming flocks and herds, a land of rolling mesas and precious running waters that at length unite in the Currumpaw River, from which the whole region is named.  And the king whose despotic power was felt over its entire extent was an old gray wolf.