. The call of the wild. and the quick wolf snap. In this man-ner had fought forgotten ancestors. Theyquickened the old life within him, and the oldtricks which they had stamped into the hered-ity of the breed were his tricks. They cameto him without effort or discovery, as thoughthey had been his always. And when, on thestill cold nights, he pointed his nose at a starand howled long and wolflike, it was his an-cestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at starand howling down through the centuries andthrough him. And his cadences were theircadences, the cadences which voiced their woeand what to th
. The call of the wild. and the quick wolf snap. In this man-ner had fought forgotten ancestors. Theyquickened the old life within him, and the oldtricks which they had stamped into the hered-ity of the breed were his tricks. They cameto him without effort or discovery, as thoughthey had been his always. And when, on thestill cold nights, he pointed his nose at a starand howled long and wolflike, it was his an-cestors, dead and dust, pointing nose at starand howling down through the centuries andthrough him. And his cadences were theircadences, the cadences which voiced their woeand what to them was the meaning of the still-ness, and the cold, and dark. Thus, as token of what a puppet thing life THE LAW OF CLUB AND FANG 63 is, the ancient song surged through him andhe came into his own again; and he camebecause men had found a yellow metal in theNorth, and because Manuel was a gardenershelper whose wages did not lap over theneeds of his wife and divers small copies ofhimself. Ill THE DOMINANT PRIMORDIALBEAST. WSk^Mfc^
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