02378cam a22003733u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003704000110007804100170008905000070010610000460011324500280015926400510018730000470023833600260028533700260031133800360033749000800037350000310045350800540048452010920053853400750163065300180170565300270172365300250175065300260177583000800180185600610188185600430194299900190198577509UtSlPG20260610134809.0mcr n260607r20251925utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aMorgan, Howard E.q(Howard Elmer),d-193310aBill of the wild streak 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2025  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier1 aProduced from the April 18, 1925 issue of Argosy All-Story Weekly magazine.  aRelease date is 2025-12-19  aPrepared by volunteers at BookCove (bookcove.net)  aBill of the wild streak by Howard E. Morgan is a wilderness adventure short story written in the early 20th century. It follows a powerful mongrel sheepdog whose loyalty to his master clashes with a latent “wild streak,” exploring themes of instinct, duty, and redemption.

The story centers on Bill, a husky-collie mix who guards a flock for Hardin, a tough but fair ex-soldier. Bill saves the herd from a coyote and later from a cougar, yet when Hardin leaves, pain and fever unleash Bill’s killer instinct and he slaughters several sheep. Hardin returns, wounds Bill in anger, and the dog flees—but he secretly resumes guarding the flock alongside a lazy collie named Stub. When a forest fire races in, Bill drives the sheep to safety at the pond with fierce urgency; Hardin misreads this as fresh bloodlust and shoots him again before realizing the danger. With the flames engulfing the cabin, Hardin braves the fire to rescue the injured dog, tends his wounds, and promises a new life away from sheep—just the man and his dog. (This is an automatically generated summary.)  pOriginally published:cNew York, NY: The Frank A. Munsey Company, 1925  aShort stories  aWest (U.S.) -- Fiction  aShepherds -- Fiction  aSheep dogs -- Fiction 0aProduced from the April 18, 1925 issue of Argosy All-Story Weekly magazine.4 uhttps://archive.org/details/argosy-v-168-n-02-1925-04-1840uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77509  c118229d118229