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path ; but to-night the foxes were yapping 

 an answer all around them, and sometimes a 

 few adventurous dogs would scale the moun- 

 tains silently to sit on the rocks and join in 

 the wild wolf chorus, and not a wolf stirred 

 to molest them. All were more or less luna- 

 tic, and knew not what they were doing. 



For hours the uncanny comedy would drag 

 itself on into the tense midnight silence, the 

 wailing cry growing more demented and 

 heartrending as the spell of ancient days fell 

 again upon the degenerate huskies. Up on 

 the lonely mountain tops the moon looked 

 down, still and cold, and saw upon every 

 pinnacle a dog or a wolf, each with his 

 head turned up at the sky, howling his 

 heart out. Down in the hamlet, scattered for 

 miles along Deep Arm and the harbor 

 shore, sleepers stirred uneasily at the 

 clamor, the women clutching their 



& babies close, the men cursing the 

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r y ix C1 '^ z y brutes and vowing all sorts of 



<4* fc i * ven g eance on tne morrow. Then 



the wolves would slip 

 . away like shadows into 



