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OFFICERS OF THE NATIONAL COUNCIL

Honorary President,           The HON. WOODROW WILSON
Honorary Vice-President,      HON. WILLIAM H. TAFT
Honorary Vice-President,      COLONEL THEODORE ROOSEVELT
President,                    COLIN H. LIVINGSTON, Washington D.C.
Vice-President,               B. L. DULANY, ????, Tenn.
Vice-President,               MILTON A. McRAE,????
Vice-President,               DAVID STARR JORDAN,????
Vice-President,               F. L. SEELY, Asheville, N.C.
Vice-President,               A. STANFORD. WHITE, Chicago, Ill.
Chief Scout,                  ERNEST THOMPSON SETON,????
National Scout Commissioner,  DANIEL CARTER BEARD,????

FINANCE COMMITTEE
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NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
THE FIFTH AVENUE BUILDING, 200 FIFTH AVENUE
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NEW YORK CITY

ADDITIONAL MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE BOARD
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July 31, 1913.

TO THE PUBLIC--
In the execution of its purpose to give educational value and moral
worth to the recreational activities of the boyhood of America, the
leaders of the Boy Scout Movement quickly learned that to effectively
carry out its program, the boy must be influenced not only in his
out-of-door life but also in the diversions of his other leisure
moments. It is at such times that the boy is captured by the tales of
daring enterprises and adventurous good times. What now is needful in
not that his taste should be thwarted but trained. There should
constantly be presented to him the books the boy likes best, yet
always the books that will be best for the boy. As a matter of fact,
however, the boy's taste is being constantly visited and exploited by
the great mass of  cheap juvenile literature.

To help anxiously concerned parents and educators to meet this grave
peril, the Library Commission of the Boy Scouts of America has been
organized. EVERY BOY'S LIBRARY is the result of their labors. All the
books chosen have been approved by them. The commission is composed of
the following members: George F. Bowerman, Librarian, Public Library
of the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C.; Harrison W. Graver,
Librarian, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Pa.; Claude G. Leland,
Superintendent, Bureau of Libraries, Board of Education, New York
City; Edward F. Stevens, Librarian, Pratt Institute Free Library,
Brooklyn, New York; together with the Editorial Board of our Movement,
William D. Murray, George D. Pratt and Frank Presbrey, with Franklin
K. Mathiews, Chief Scout Librarian, as Secretary.

In selecting the books, the Commission has chosen only such as are of
interest to boys, the first twenty-five being either works of fiction
or stirring stories of adventurous experiences. In later lists, books
of a more serious sort will be included. It is hoped that as many as
twenty-five may be added to the library each year.

Thanks are due the several publishers who have helped to inaugurate
this new department of our work. Without their co-operation in making
available for popular priced editions some of the best books ever
published for boys, the promotion of EVERY BOY'S LIBRARY would have
been impossible.

We wish, too, to express out heartfelt gratitude to the Library
Commission, who, without compensation, have placed their vast
experience and immense resources at the service of our Movement.

The commission invites suggestions as to future books to be included
in the Library. Librarians, teachers, parents, and all others
interested in welfare work for boys, can render a unique service by
forwarding to National Headquarters lists of such books as in their
judgment would be suitable for EVERY BOY'S LIBRARY.

Signed, James E. West.

THE GAUNT GRAY WOLF



[Illustration: "They were startled by blood-curdling whoops, and a
half-dozen Indians, guns levelled, rose upon the shore"  (See page
85).]


EVERY BOY'S LIBRARY--BOY SCOUT EDITION

THE GAUNT GRAY WOLF

A TALE OF ADVENTURE WITH "UNGAVA BOB"

BY
DILLON WALLACE

AUTHOR OF
UNGAVA BOB, ETC., ETC.

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS
Made in the United State of America

Copyright, 1914, by
FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY


New York: 158 Fifth Avenue
Chicago:   17 North Wabash Ave.
London:    21 Paternoster Square
Edinburgh: 75 Princes Street

CONTENTS

I.      SHAD TROWBRIDGE OF BOSTON
II.     THE LURE OF THE WILDERNESS
III.    UNGAVA BOB MAKES A RESCUE
IV.     AWAY TO THE TRAILS
V.      IN THE FAR WILDERNESS
VI.     OLD FRIENDS
VII.    WHERE THE EVIL SPIRITS DWELL
VIII.   AFTER THE INDIAN ATTACK
IX.     THE INDIAN MAIDEN AT THE RIVER TILT
X.      THE VOICES OF THE SPIRITS
XI.     MANIKAWAN'S VENGEANCE
XII.    THE TRAGEDY OF THE RAPIDS
XIII.   ON THE TRAIL OF THE INDIANS
XIV.    THE MATCHI MANITU IS CHEATED
XV.     THE PASSING OF THE WILD THINGS
XVI.    ALONE WITH THE INDIANS
XVII.   CHRISTMAS AT THE RIVER TILT
XVIII.  THE SPIRIT OF DEATH GROWS BOLD.
XIX.    THE CACHE ON THE LAKE
XX.     THE FOLK AT WOLF BIGHT
XXI.    THE RIFLED CACHE
XXII.   MANIKAWAN'S SACRIFICE
XXIII.  TUMBLED AIR CASTLES
XXIV.   THE MESSENGER
XXV.    A MISSION OF LIFE AND DEATH
XXVI.   "GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS"
XXVII.  SHAD'S TRIBUTE TO THE INDIAN MAIDEN
XXVIII. TROWBRIDGE AND GRAY, TRADERS
XXIX.   THE FRUIT OF MANIKAWAN'S SACRIFICE



THE GAUNT GRAY WOLF


I

SHAD TROWBRIDGE OF BOSTON

On a foggy morning of early July in the year 1890, the Labrador mail
boat, northward bound from St. Johns, felt her way cautiously into the
mist-enveloped harbour of Fort Pelican and to her anchorage.

For six days the little steamer had been buffeted by wind and ice and
fog, and when at last her engines ceased to throb and she lay at rest
in harbour, Allen Shadrach Trowbridge of Boston, her only passenger,
felt hugely relieved, for the voyage had been a most unpleasant one,
and here he was to disembark.

In June, Allen Shadrach Trowbridge--or "Shad" Trowbridge as the
fellows called him, and as we shall call him--had completed his
freshman year in college. When college closed he set sail at once for
Labrador, where he was to spend his summer holiday canoeing and
fishing in the wilderness.

This was the first extended journey Shad Trowbridge had ever made
quite alone. For many months he had been planning and preparing for
it, and he promised himself it was to be an eventful experience.

He was standing now at the rail, as the ship anchored, peering eagerly
through the mist at the group of low, whitewashed buildings which
composed Fort Pelican post of the Hudson's Bay Company, and at the dim
outline of dark forest behind--a clean-cut, square-shouldered,
athletic young fellow, who carried his head with the air of one
possessing a fair share of self-esteem and self-reliance, and whose
square jaw suggested wilfulness if not determination.

The rugged surroundings thrilled him with promise of adventure. The
historic post of the old fur traders, the boundless, mysterious
forest, and the romantic life of the trappers and dusky tribes which
it sheltered, were pregnant with interest. But his wildest dreams
could not have foretold the part Shad Trowbridge was destined to play
in this primordial land and life before he should bid farewell to its
bleak coast.

"A rough-looking country," remarked the steward, joining Shad at the
rail.

"It's glorious!" exclaimed Shad enthusiastically. "A real frontier!
And back there is a real wilderness! Just the sort of wilderness I've
dreamed about getting into all my life."

"The deck of the mail boat's about as near as I want to get to it,"
said the steward with a deprecatory shrug. "It's a land o' hard knocks
and short grub. You'd better leave it to the livyeres and Indians,
young man, and go back to God's country with the ship."

"No, thank you," said Shad