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young in dens of the rocks, and the wary, 



magnificent wanderer of the broad caribou u. t 't 



barrens ; but they understood each other, and ™^J^™ 



neither wolf nor caribou had any fear or i£3s^%£*. & 



hostile intent one for the other. And this 



is not strange at all, as might be supposed 



by those who think animals are governed 



by fear on one hand and savage cruelty on 



the other, but is one of the commonest things 



to be found by those who follow faithfully 



the northern trails. 



Wayeeses had chosen her den well, on 

 the edge of the untrodden solitudes — sixty 

 miles as the crow flies — that stretch north- 

 ward from Harbor Weal to Harbor Woe. It 

 was just under the ridge, in a sunny hollow 

 among the rocks, on the southern slope of 

 the great mountains. The earliest sunshine 

 found the place and warmed it, bringing 

 forth the bluebells for a carpet, while in every 

 dark hollow the snow lingered all summer 

 long, making dazzling white patches on the 

 mountain ; and under the high waterfalls, 

 that looked from the harbor like bits of silver 

 ribbon stretched over the green woods, the 



