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Animal Heroes
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Ernest Thompson Seton
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On
Christmas
Eve
of
that
year
when
the
bell
tolled
again
as
it
had
done
for
Jimmie,
a
lone
and
melancholy
howling
from
the
woods
almost
convinced
Renaud
that
the
stories
were
true.
He
knew
the
wolf-cries--the
howl
for
help,
the
love
song,
the
lonely
wail,
and
the
sharp
defiance
of
the
Wolves.
This
was
the
lonely
wail.
The
trapper
went
to
the
riverside
and
gave
an
answering
howl.
A
shadowy
form
left
the
far
woods
and
crossed
on
the
ice
to
where
the
man
sat,
log-still,
on
a
log.
It
came
up
near
him,
circled
past
and
sniffed,
then
its
eye
glowed;
it
growled
like
a
Dog
that
is
a
little
angry,
and
glided
back
into
the
night.
Thus
Renaud
knew,
and
before
long
many
townfolk
began
to
learn,
that
a
huge
Gray-wolf
was
living
in
their
streets,
"a
Wolf
three
times
as
big
as
the
one
that
used
to
be
chained
at
Hogan's
gin-mill."
He
was
the
terror
of
Dogs,
killing
them
on
all
possible
occasions,
and
some
said,
though
it
was
never
proven,
that
he
had
devoured
more
than
one
half-breed
who
was
out
on
a
spree.
And
this
was
the
Winnipeg
Wolf
that
I
had
seen
that
day
in
the
wintry
woods.
I
had
longed
to
go
to
his
help,
thinking
the
odds
so
hopelessly
against
him,
but
later
knowledge
changed
the
thought.
I
do
not
know
how
that
fight
ended,
but
I
do
know
that
he
was
seen
many
times
afterward
and
some
of
the
Dogs
were
not.
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