the book of were wolves by sabine baring gould

His small pale-grey eyes twinkled with an expression of horrible ferocity and cunning, from deep sunken hollows. His hair was of a tawny red and thickly matted, falling over his shoulders and completely covering his narrow brow. The girls ran to the spot, and saw a little fall in the ground, in which, seated on a log of fir, was a boy of thirteen. At the same time one of the dogs began to growl and show his fangs. She asked because the sheep which had been quietly browsing before her, on reaching a small depression in the dune, had started away as though frightened at something. 'You will turn the head of Etienne altogether, Annette!' said Jeanne Gaboriant. Jean?' asked a third 'my mother has laid by to purchase me a smart cap with gold lace.' 'Now, if they would fly ready cooked into one's mouth, as they do in foreign parts!' said another girl. 'Ah!' exclaimed Jacquiline Auzun,' ah, if I had my stilts and bats, I would strike the little birds down, and we should have a fine supper.' Now a gorgeous butterfly attracted their attention, then a flight of quails skimming the surface. Variously with the foliage of cork-trees, pines, and acacia, the latter in full bloom, a pile of rose-coloured or snowy flowers,-all conspired to fill the peasant maidens with joy, and to make their voices rise in song and laughter, which rung merrily over the hills, and through the dark avenues of evergreen trees.

The brightness of the sky, the freshness of the air puffing up off the blue twinkling Bay of Biscay, the hum or song of the wind as it made rich music among the pines which stood like a green uplifted wave on the East, the beauty of the sand-hills speckled with golden cistus, or patched with gentian-blue, by the low growing Gremille couchée, the charm of the forest-skirts, tinted

ONE fine afternoon in the spring, some village girls were tending their sheep on the sand-dunes which intervene between the vast forests of pine covering the greater portion of the present department of Landes in the south of France, and the sea. On the Sand-dunes-A Wolf attacks Marguerite Poirier-Jean Grenier brought to Trial-His Confessions-Charges of Cannibalism proved-His Sentence-Behaviour in the Monastery-Visit of Del'ancre. The Book of Were-Wolves, by Sabine Baring-Gould,, at

The book of were wolves by sabine baring gould