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

Author: Ernest Seton-Thompson

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Language: English

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[Illustration: LOBO, RAG, AND VIXEN]

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.

Old Lobo, or the king, as the Mexicans called him, was the gigantic
leader of a remarkable pack of gray wolves, that had ravaged the
Currumpaw Valley for a number of years. All the shepherds and ranchmen
knew him well, and, wherever he appeared with his