"Come one, come all" callers

Usage examples of barkers.

And, while a youngling could be shown one of the Barkers, a Tusked One, or even a vile Ratton in the flesh, he had to depend solely upon such representations of Demons for identification.

But they could be worn to face the Barkers, as those knew only too well.

Fuffor, Furtig's father, had died in a battle with the Barkers, and he was then the only one of his years left at the Five Caves.

Before they had died, the Demons had gone mad, even as sometimes the Barkers did.

He could remain where he was and do battle, for he did not doubt that the Barkers would speedily scent him (in fact he wondered fleetingly why they had not already done so).

The Barkers were a third again as large as Furtig in size, their strong muscles moving smoothly under hides which were some as gray as his own, others blotched with black or lightened on belly and chest with cream.

The People could not echo the speech of the Tusked Ones, any more than they could the sharp yelps of the Barkers—though no reasonable creature could deem those speech.

Furtig watched the Barkers out of sight and" then worked his way around the tree, found a place where he could leap onto the next, and made that crossing skillfully.

To see Barkers invading the hunting territory of the Five Caves was a shock.

For a time he kept to the trees, where he left no trail to be sniffed out even though, unlike the Barkers and the Tusked Ones, his people had no strong body odor.

First a hunting party of the Barkers, now a territory marking left by a stranger, as if Five Caves and its clans did not exist at all!

Furtig spoke—first of the Barkers and then of the strange boundary sign.

With a gesture Fal-Kan dismissed the Barkers, They were what one could expect from time to time, and scouts would be sent to make sure the Barkers were not pack forerunners.

The Rattons did not fight as the People did but more like the Barkers, sending many against one.

But the day comes when the People, plus the Barkers, plus the Tusked Ones, will have to stand together or perish.