wolves. They, too, sprang up and stood howling, with bristling hides

and fiery eyes, and the smell of them came into my nostrils. Yet when

they saw it was a man that rushed upon them, they were seized with

sudden fear and fled this way and that, leaping by great bounds from

the place of rock, which is the knees of the stone Witch, so that

presently I stood alone in front of the cave. Now, having conquered

the wolf ghosts and no blow struck, my heart swelled within me, and I

walked to the mouth of the cave proudly, as a cock walks upon a roof,