Startled by the sight of fire, she gnashed her teeth and gave a sullen growl.

Having made the necessary discovery (that the wolf was in the den), Putnam kicked at the rope, as a signal for pulling him out.

The people at the mouth of the den, who had listened with painful anxiety, hearing the growling of the wolf, and supposing their friend to be in the most imminent danger, drew him forth with such celerity that his shirt was stripped over his head and his skin severely lacerated.
"After adjusting his clothes, and loading his gun with nine buckshot, holding a torch in one hand and the musket in the other, he descended the second time.

He drew nearer than before, and the wolf, assuming a still more fierce and terrible appearance, growling, rolling her eyes, snapping her teeth, and dropping her head between her legs, was evidently on the point of springing at him.

At this critical instant he leveled his gun and fired at her head.