202 MARK'S CONCLUSION. 



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rifle ; and though with that he has no fear of wolves, yet he 

 concludes that a hunting-knife and a stick are no match for 

 a whole pack of the kritters, when made savage by the star- 

 vation of winter." 



While we were listening to the story of MAKK SHUFF and 

 the wolves, the old fellow over the water made the forest 

 ring again with his howling. He was answered from miles 

 away down the lake by another. Their voices kept the forest 

 echoes busy, until we laid ourselves away in our blankets, 

 where we slept till wakened by the glad voices of the birds 

 in the early morning. 



