Nomads of the North: A Story of Romance and Adventure under the Open Stars

ast. In the wet dawn Challoner came out to start a fire, and in a hollow

utterly changed his world for him. Exhaustion had made him sleep through the long hours of that first night of captivity, and in sleep he had forgotten many t

m from the sheltered hollow under the root. The pup's one good ear and the other that was half gone stood up alertly, as he greeted his master with the boundless good cheer of an irrepressible comradeship. Challoner's face, wet with the drizzle of the gray ski

until only his round head was showing, and from this fortress of tempor

of it all when his mother turned to confront their enemy. And yet it was not the death of his mother that remained with him most poignantly this morning. It was the memory of his own terrific fight with the white man, and his struggle afterward in the black

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s sorry," said Challoner, speaki

tain specific psychology of the animal mind, and had proven to his own satisfaction that animals treated and conversed w

ke it up to you. We're going to take you along with us down to the Girl, and if you don't learn to love her you're the meanest, lowest-down little cuss in all creation and don't deserve a mother. You and Miki are going to be brothers. His mother is d

er seen. Yesterday it had not harmed him, except to put him into the bag. And now it did not offer to harm him. More than that, the talk it made was not unpleasant, or threatening. His eyes took in Miki. Th

Then the miracle happened. The man-beast's paw touched his head. It sent a strange and terrible thrill through him. Yet

orth and held him at arm's length, kicking and squirming, and setting up such a bawling that in sheer sympathy Miki raised his voice and joined in the agonized orgy of sound. Half a minute later Challoner had Neewa once more in the prison-sack, but this time

resting than that operation, and he hovered about Neewa as he struggled and bawled, trying vainly to offer him some assistance in the matter of

noe he made a soft nest of the skin taken from the cub's mother. Then he called Miki and tied the end of a worn rope around his neck, after which he fastened the other end of this rope around the neck of N

We're going to aim at forty miles to-day t

aft of sunlight broke thro