A cold wind blew. A wolf howled. Rob huddled himself into a ball. He was lost. A few hours ago, he had wandered away from his group while on a fifteen mile hike.
Rob tossed and turned, but he couldn't get to sleep because a wolf was howling so loud that he thought his ears were going to burst. When his watch struck twelve, and the wolf was still howling, he decided to get rid of it, so he grabbed a stick and started following the sounds of the wolf. When he found the wolf, it was high up on a pile of rocks. With an intent look on his face, he began to climb the high rock pile. Then he crept up to the wolf and was about to hit it with his stick, when the wolf turned around and bit the stick in two!
Rob was about to run away when a man popped out from behind a rock. "Hi, my name is Bill," said the man, "and this is my wolf, Prowler.
Are you lost?" asked Bill.
"Yes," answered Rob.
"Would you like to stay at my house for the night?" offered Bill.
"Yes," repeated Rob.
Rob spent the night at Bill's house (which just happened to be in the middle of the forest). When he woke up, Bill was nowhere to be seen. Instead a woman was cooking breakfast in the kitchen. "Who are you?" asked Rob.
"My name is Jane, and what are you doing in my house?"
"Well, someone named Bill, who said he lived here, invited me to stay for the night."
"Oh, Bill," said the woman. "A strange man he is. One minute he's here in this house with me, and the next minute he's in the forest."
Just then Rob heard a snuffle, followed by a yell, and a loud growl. There was a loud bustle as Bill came running through the forest with a humongous brown bear chasing him. Suprisingly, Rob didn't run or yell. He just ran up to the bear, and began to wrestle it back into the forest. Bill made it safely back to the house.
As for Rob, some people say that when you listen hard at night, you can still hear him, wrestling with that humongous brown bear.
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