. The call of the wild. tribesmen foundwith throats slashed cruelly open and withwolf prints about them in the snow greaterthan the prints of any wolf. Each fall, whenthe Yeehats follow the movement of themoose, there is a certain valley which theynever enter. And women there are who be-come sad when the word goes over the fireof how the Evil Spirit came to select thatvalley for an abiding-place. In the summers there is one visitor, how-ever, to that valley, of which the Yeehats donot know. It is a great, gloriously coatedwolf, like, and yet unlike, all other crosses alone from the s
. The call of the wild. tribesmen foundwith throats slashed cruelly open and withwolf prints about them in the snow greaterthan the prints of any wolf. Each fall, whenthe Yeehats follow the movement of themoose, there is a certain valley which theynever enter. And women there are who be-come sad when the word goes over the fireof how the Evil Spirit came to select thatvalley for an abiding-place. In the summers there is one visitor, how-ever, to that valley, of which the Yeehats donot know. It is a great, gloriously coatedwolf, like, and yet unlike, all other crosses alone from the smiling timber landand comes down into an open space among thetrees. Here a yellow stream flows from rottedmoose-hide sacks and sinks into the ground,with long grasses growing through it and vege-table mould overrunning it and hiding its yellowfrom the sun; and here he muses for a time, howl-ing once, long and mournfully, ere he departs. But he is not always alone. When the longwinter nights come on and the wolves follow. In the summers there is one visitor ... to that valley,... a great, gloriously coated wolf. THE SOUNDING OF THE CALL 231 their meat into the lower valleys, he may beseen running at the head of the pack throughthe pale moonlight or glimmering borealis, leap-ing gigantic above his fellows, his great throata-bellow as he sings a song of the youngerworld, which is the song of the pack.
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