: The narrator receives a bull terrier puppy as a gift from a friend. The dog turns out to be very brave, boldly rushes into battle even with the one who is larger than her, and dies during the hunt for the wolf.

The narration is conducted in the first person.

The narrator received a package from his school friend. The parcel was preceded by a telegram in which a friend informed that he was sending a wonderful puppy and asked to be careful with him - “it is safer”.

The box with the inscription “Dangerous” was opened by the narrator with caution - his companion, inclined to practical jokes, could send “a hellish car or a mad ferret” instead of a puppy. All this time, an unfriendly growl was heard from the box.

Dogs growl in two frets: in a low, chesty voice - this is a polite warning or a dignified answer - and loudly, almost shrillly - this is the last word before the attack.

A small white bull terrier puppy jumped out of the opened box and immediately tried to grab the storyteller by the leg. He climbed onto the table and sat on it until dark, and the puppy kept him on guard. At half-past ten the narrator moved to the buffet, from it to the fireplace, and from there to his bed, undressed silently and lay down, managing to not disturb his "master".The fireplace went out a long time ago, the puppy felt cold, he climbed into the bed of the storyteller, who did not dare to move all night without his permission.

The narrator gave the puppy the name GingerSnap (English crispy gingerbread), but called him abbreviated as Snap (English grab, click). In the morning, he began training the obstinate puppy and chose the “leave without breakfast” method. All day the narrator did not give Snap food, and in the evening he himself took it from the owner.

Three months later, the owner and the dog became inseparable friends. Snap turned out to be unusually brave. Sometimes it seemed to the narrator that the puppy was not at all familiar with the feeling of fear. He bravely attacked huge dogs, but if the boys started throwing stones at Snapa, he did not run from the offenders, but towards them, and quickly dealt with the hooligans. Sometimes Snap lost the battle, "but no bitter experience could inspire him with a grain of caution."

The narrator served in a hardware company. Once the company sent him to the northern states, to trade in barbed wire. He left Snap with the landlady, but they did not agree on the characters - the puppy despised her, she was afraid of him, "and both hated each other."

Once a week, the narrator received a letter from the landlady full of complaints about Snap. Arriving in North Dakota, the narrator met with the farmers, the father and two sons of Penruf.

You can’t visit the area where cattle breeding is carried out and not hear about the atrocities of some crafty and bloodthirsty wolf.

Wolves have long ceased to fall for poisoned bait, so the Penrufs brought a pack of dogs to hunt predators. Each breed of dog has certain advantages and disadvantages, and farmers made their pack from different breeds.It contained hounds, and greyhounds, and huge Danish dogs, and even the mighty Russian wolfhounds.

The first hunt of the pack was unsuccessful - the dogs managed to track down and catch up with the wolf, but were afraid to attack him. Soon the narrator received a letter from the housewife “demanding the immediate removal of Snap”, which was mocking in her room. Without thinking twice, the narrator ordered the dog to be sent to himself, in North Dakota.

Twenty hours later, the narrator met with his favorite. During this time, the Penrufs managed to arrange a wolf hunt several times, but each time it ended in failure. Having visited farmers, the narrator allowed Snap to participate in the hunt, and this time the persecution ended successfully - the coyote killed the pack, but none of the hunters managed to see exactly how this happened.

At night, “the wolves killed several cows,” and the farmers again went hunting. This time the pack was driven by a young wolf, and the hunters managed to see how Snap was the first to grab the nose of the beast, and the rest of the dogs followed his example.

The hounds have beautiful noses, the greyhounds have fast legs, wolfhounds and dogs are strong, but they all cost nothing, because only the bull terrier has unselfish courage.

So the herders "resolved the wolfish question", and now in each of their pack there is a small but desperate brave bull terrier.

During the hunt, Snap was badly wounded in the shoulder, and, gathering for another bullying, the narrator locked him in a barn. However, the dog managed to get out, caught up with the owner and bravely rushed in pursuit of a huge old wolf.

The hunters quickly caught up with a seasoned predator, but the dogs still did not dare to attack him. Instead of shooting the wolf, one of the Penruf brothers decided to see what happens next. Soon the wolf surrounded the pack, but did not dare to attack. And then Snap came running behind behind his short legs. Without any hesitation, he broke “through the ring of barking dogs” and grabbed the wolf’s nose, and the predator “hit him with all twenty of his daggers.”

The rest of the dogs rushed after Snap, and everything was mixed up. When the pack finally parted, the narrator saw a dead wolf with a small bull terrier in its nose. He leaned towards Snap and found that he was mortally wounded. The dog licked the owner’s hand and "became silent forever."

Undaunted Snap was buried "on the hill behind the farm", and Penruff Sr. called him a real brave man.