“Are they your men?” asked Georg. “Are they your men?” he repeated impatiently, as Ulrich did not answer.
“No,” said Ulrich with a laugh, the idiotic chattering laugh of a man unstrung with hideous fear.
“Who are they?” asked Georg quickly, straining his eyes to see what the other would have gladly not seen.
“Wolves.”
“Let’s both try to move this tree form off of us,” said Georg frantically, “so we might reach our guns and scare them off.”
“Come on, quickly now!” cried Ulrich.
Both men were in a frenzy trying to lift the tree from off of them as the wolves were running toward them. The wolves reached the men and sent them into a panic while they were forcing the tree off them with as much energy as the exhausted men could muster.
They used the tree as a sort of shield against the snarling wolves. Although they had gotten …show more content…
Blood gushed forth and covered the ground. The rest of the pack of wolves had, by this point, turned around from Georg to Ulrich because of the noise. Ulrich threw Georg the almost loaded gun as the wolves advanced toward Ulrich. Ulrich was trying to fight the wolves the best he could, but was very ineffective against them because of their numbers and his pain. Georg finished loading the gun as quickly as he could and took aim at any wolf he first laid sight on and fired.
While all this was happening, the men which had followed Ulrich and Georg had heard the commotion and tried to figure out where it was coming from. They rounded a group of small pine trees and looked down the slope on the other side. There they saw Ulrich in the middle of the wolves and Georg doing his best to kill them off. Each took his gun, aimed, and fired at the moving targets of wolves. Georg had no idea they were there or that they were even firing at the