The White Wolf

The White Wolf is the main antagonist of the short horror story from Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark of the same name.

Biography
The timber wolves around french creek has gotten really out of hand. They were so many wolves, that the farmers could not stop them from killing their cattle and sheep. So the state put a bounty on them. It would pay a hunter ten dollars for every wolf pelt he turned in.

Then a butcher named Bill Wilson thought that was pretty good money, So he stopped working as a butcher and he began killing wolves, He was quite the shot. He was good at it. Each year he killed over five hundred wolves. That came than five thousand dollars. It was quite a bit of money in those days.

Then after four or five years, Bill has killed so many wolves, there were hardly any left in the area. So Bill Wilson retired, and he vowed never to harm another wolf again because killing wolves had made him rich.

Then one day a farmer reported that a white wolf had killed two of his sheep. He had shot at it and hit it, but the bullets did not have any effect. Soon the same wolf was seen all over the countryside, killing and running. But nobody could stop it.

One night it came into Bill's yard and killed his pet cow. Bill forgot about his decesion to harm another wolf again. He went into town the next morning and bought a young lamb for bait. He took it out into the hills and tied it into a tree. Then he backed off about fifthy yards. and sat down under another tree. With with his gun in his lap, he waited.

When Bill did not come back, Bill's friends started to look for him. Finally they found a lamb. The lamb was still tied to the tree, it was hungry, but it was alive. Then they found Bill. He was sitting against the other tree, but he was dead. His throat has been torn open.

But there was no sign of a struggle. Bill's gun has not been fired. And there was no tracks in the soil around him. As for the white wolf, it was never seen again.