"Shooting straight upwards on the top of what appeared to have been a
submarine mine in a mild form"

"He clutched, and tore, and gulped, and gorged"

"All allowed that he was the pluckiest beast on earth"







THE WAY OF THE WILD


I

GULO THE INDOMITABLE

If his father had been a brown bear and his mother a badger, the result
in outward appearance would have been Gulo, or something very much like
him. But not all the crossing in the world could have accounted for
his character; that came straight from the Devil, his master. Gulo,
however, was not a cross. He was himself, Gulo, the wolverine, _alias_
glutton, _alias_ carcajou, _alias_ quick-hatch, _alias_ fjeldfras in
the vernacular, or, officially, _Gulo luscus_. But, by whatever name
you called him, he did not smell sweet; and his character, too, was of
a bad odor. A great man once said that he was like a bear cub with a
superadded tail; but that great man cannot have seen his face. If he