From ` Litterature Orale de l'Auvergne , ' par Paul Sebillot . How Brave Walter Hunted Wolves A little back from the high road there stands a house which is called ` Hemgard . ' Perhaps you remember the two beautiful mountain ash trees by the reddish-brown palings , and the high gate , and the garden with the beautiful barberry bushes which are always the first to become grown in spring , and which in summer are weighed down with their beautiful berries . Behind the garden there is a hedge with tall aspens which rustle in the morning wind , behind the hedge is a road , behind the road is a wood , and behind the wood the wide world . But on the other side of the garden there is a lake , and beyond the lake is a village , and all around stretch meadows and fields , now yellow , now green . In the pretty house , which has white window-frames , a neat porch and clean steps , which are always strewn with finely-cut juniper leaves , Walter 's parents live . His brother Frederick , his sister Lotta , old Lena , Jonah , Caro and Bravo , Putte and Murre , and Kuckeliku . Caro lives in the dog house , Bravo in the stable , Putte with the stableman , Murre a little here and a little there , and Kuckeliku lives in the hen house , that is his kingdom . Walter is six years old , and he must soon begin to go to school . He can not read yet , but he can do many other things . He can turn cartwheels , stand on his head , ride see-saw , throw snowballs , play ball , crow like a cock , eat bread and butter and drink sour milk , tear his trousers , wear holes in his elbows , break the crockery in pieces , throw balls through the windowpanes , draw old men on important papers , walk over the flower-beds , eat himself sick with gooseberries , and be well after a whipping . For the rest he has a good heart but a bad memory , and forgets his father 's and his mother 's admonitions , and so often gets into trouble and meets with adventures , as you shall hear , but first of all I must tell you how brave he was and how he hunted wolves . Once in the spring , a little before Midsummer , Walter heard that there were a great many wolves in the wood , and that pleased him . He was wonderfully brave when he was in the midst of his companions or at home with his brothers and sister , then he used often to say ` One wolf is nothing , there ought to be at least four . ' When he wrestled with Klas Bogenstrom or Frithiof Waderfelt and struck them in the back , he would say ` That is what I shall do to a wolf ! ' and when he shot arrows at Jonas and they rattled against his sheepskin coat he would say : ` That is how I should shoot you if you were a wolf ! ' Indeed , some thought that the brave boy boasted a little ; but one must indeed believe him since he said so himself . So Jonas and Lena used to say of him ` Look , there goes Walter , who shoots the wolves . ' And other boys and girls would say ` Look , there goes brave Walter , who is brave enough to fight with four . ' There was no one so fully convinced of this as Walter himself , and one day he prepared himself for a real wolf hunt .
He took with him his drum , which had holes in one end XXXXX the time he had climbed up on it to reach a cluster of rowan berries , and his tin sabre , which was a little broken , because he had with incredible courage fought his way through a whole unfriendly army of gooseberry bushes .
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