Excerpt from A Heroine of the Wilderness: The Story of Lincoln's Mother He was a young dog, and handsome for one of his sort. He saw me taking aim, but instead of sneaking away, he rose up on his hind feet and stood before me as if offer ing himself for a target. I hesitated, with my finger on the trigger. He seemed to beg for mercy; to wish to come towards me in a friendly way, somehow, to be acquainted with man; then he dropped down on his feet and moved away slowly. He acted as if there was something he would like to say to me. It was the strangest conduct on the part of a wild animal, especially on the part of a young timber wolf, that I ever knew. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.