The two men make peace and shout together for help. Ulrich sees figures running down the hillside; Georg asks who they are, and Ulrich answers, "Wolves." Why is this ending situational irony?

Before the reconciliation, Georg swears they will fight the quarrel to the death, "you and I and our foresters, with no cursed interlopers to come between us." Why does that word turn ironic by the end?

After they become friends, the narrator says each man privately prays that his own men will arrive first. What makes that prayer ironic?

Ulrich has just cried out gladly that figures are running toward them. Georg asks twice, "Are they your men?" and Ulrich answers with what the narrator calls the idiotic chattering laugh of a man unstrung with hideous fear. What has happened?

What does Saki actually do at the moment Ulrich names what he sees?

What are Ulrich von Gradwitz and Georg Znaeym quarreling over when the story opens?

The disputed strip of forest was taken from the Znaeym family by a court judgment that the losing family never accepted.

The lawsuit was decided three generations ago. What does the narrator say has kept the feud burning since then?

What does the narrator tell us about the disputed strip of woodland itself?

Why has Ulrich posted his foresters and gone out into the forest on this wind-scourged winter night?

A shriek of the storm is answered by a splitting crash, and a mass of falling beech comes down on both men at the instant they stand rifle to rifle. What does the falling tree accomplish for the story?

As the storm rises, the roebuck run like driven things and the creatures that usually sleep through the dark hours are restless. What does Ulrich take this unrest to mean?

The narrator pauses to say that it was an open winter and little snow had fallen as yet. What does that detail about the setting make possible?

Ulrich comes face to face with Georg alone, with no foresters beside either man. Why is he by himself?

Ulrich waits for the wind to drop before suggesting they shout, and the two raise a prolonged hunting call. Why does no answering halloo come back?

Which of these happens FIRST after the beech comes down on the two men?

Ulrich gets his free arm to his coat pocket, drinks from his wine-flask, and asks whether Georg could reach it if he threw it over. How does Georg answer?

Which of these events comes LAST in the story?

Ulrich says there are better things in life than getting the better of a boundary dispute and asks Georg to help him bury the old quarrel. What does Georg do next?

Georg Znaeym is the first of the two trapped men to propose ending the feud.