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the men running alongside shouting Hi-hi 

 and cracking their whips, they could still 

 see, over their shoulders, the wolves follow- 

 ing lightly close behind ; but when they 

 rushed breathless into their houses, and 

 grabbed their guns, and ran back on the 

 trail, there was nothing to be seen. For the 

 wolves, quick as light to feel the presence 

 of danger, were already far away, trotting 

 swiftly up the frozen arm of the harbor, fol- 

 lowing another sledge trail which came down 

 that morning from the wilderness. 



That same night the wolves appeared 

 silently in the little lodge, far up the South- 

 east Brook, where in a sheltered hollow of 

 the hills the fishermen's families were sleep- 

 ing away the bitter winter. Here for one long 

 night they watched and waited in vain; for 

 every living thing was safe in the tilts behind 

 barred doors. In the morning little Noel's 

 eyes kindled as he saw the wolves' tracks; 

 and when they came back again the tilts were 

 watching. As the lop-eared cub darted after 

 a cat that shot like a ray of moonlight under 

 a cabin, a window opened noiselessly, and 



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