possible what the brutes felt amid the primal 

 silence and desolation. 



A long interval of profound stillness had 

 passed, and I could just make out the circle 

 of dogs sitting on their tails on the open 

 shore, when suddenly, faint and far away, an 

 unearthly howl came rolling down the moun- 

 tains, ooooooo-ow-wow-wozv ! a long wailing 

 crescendo beginning softly, like a sound in a 

 dream, and swelling into a roar that waked 

 the sleeping echoes and set them jumping like 

 startled goats from crag to crag. Instantly 

 the huskies answered, every dog breaking 

 out into indescribable frenzied wailings, as a 

 collie responds in agony to certain chords of 

 music that stir all the old wolf nature sleep- 

 ing within him. For five minutes the uproar 

 was appalling; then it ceased abruptly and 

 the huskies ran wildly here and there among 

 the rocks. From far away an answer, an 

 echo perhaps of their wailing, or, it may be, 

 the cry of the dogs of 

 St. Margaret's, came 

 ululating over the deep. 

 Then silence again, vast 



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