Previous<\/a> – Book1 Page277 \u2013 Next<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cBut he\u2019s not sure about horses,\u201d says EarlyBird. She knows the back story.<\/p>\n HopAlong tells everybody that wolves can sometimes be seen roaming the fells and the dales just beyond the towns. That much is true. What isn\u2019t true is how he injured his leg. Apparently, one day he was trying to keep a wolf away from the hen house, and got into a frantic fight, kicking and punching. He was bitten by the wolf before it ran off.<\/p>\n He made EarlyBird promise to keep things secret. Nobody else knows that HopAlong was actually kicked in the leg by a horse, and he\u2019s too embarrassed to admit it.<\/p>\n EarlyBird was the only other person there so she looked after him. Living many kilometres out of town, they didn\u2019t have easy access to a doctor, and even if they did, they didn\u2019t have the money to pay for treatment and after care. Over time, the broken bone set by itself, a little crooked.<\/p>\n Co-incidentally, the hen house does sometimes receive unwelcome attention from wolves. When he was a much younger man HopAlong once killed a wolf. He\u2019s still pretty good at archery, but only uses it to defend his farm The Warren<\/em> from predators.<\/p>\n The couple made a good deal of money from that one dead wolf, every bit of the carcass was valuable, with the wolfskin being the most prized asset. He says he\u2019d like to bag another one if he could, but mobility problems have stopped him from becoming a hunter.<\/p>\n Nowadays one of the redundant llama compounds contains the hen houses, and the other one has the goats. They\u2019re both completely fenced in, with wire netting all round, and overhead. They\u2019re impenetrable by wolves. The chickens and goats are completely safe, and they have a vast amount of space!<\/p>\n \u201cI can\u2019t imagine what it\u2019d be like to live on a farm surrounded by wolves,\u201d says NutJob, \u201cI\u2019ve lived in the city all my life.\u201d<\/p>\n Previous<\/a> – Book1 Page277 \u2013 Next<\/a><\/p>\n Previous – Book1 Page277 \u2013 Next \u201cBut he\u2019s not sure about horses,\u201d says EarlyBird. She knows the back story. HopAlong tells everybody that wolves can sometimes be seen roaming the fells and the dales just beyond the towns. That much is true. What isn\u2019t true is how he injured his leg. Apparently, one day he … Continue reading “Chapter 31 The Dandy Highwayman Cafe277”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1910"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1911,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions\/1911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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