unaccustomed warmth. Then the she-wolf sat down, pointed her nose at a star, and began to howl. One by

one the wolves joined her,Ugg Bailey Button, till the whole pack, on haunches, with noses pointed skyward, was howling its

hunger cry.

Dawn came, and daylight. The fire was burning low. The fuel had run out, and there was need to

get more. The man attempted to step out of his circle of flame, but the wolves surged to meet him. Burning

brands made them spring aside, but they no longer sprang back. In vain he strove to drive them back. As he

gave up and stumbled inside his circle, a wolf leaped for him, missed, and landed with all four feet in the

coals. It cried out with terror, at the same time snarling, and scrambled back to cool its paws in the snow.

The man sat down on his blankets in a crouching position. His body leaned forward from the hips.

His shoulders,ugg mini, relaxed and drooping, and his head on his knees advertised that he had given up the struggle.

Now and again he raised his head to note the dying down of the fire. The circle of flame and coals was

breaking into segments with openings in between. These openings grew in size,Ugg Knightsbridge, the segments diminished.

“I guess you can come an’ get me any time,” he mumbled. “Anyway, I’m goin’ to sleep.”

Once he wakened, and in an opening in the circle, directly in front of him, he saw the she-wolf

gazing at him. Again he awakened, a little later, though it seemed hours to him. A mysterious change had

taken place — so mysterious a change that he was shocked wider awake. Something had happened. He

could not understand at first. Then he discovered it. The wolves were gone. Remained only the trampled

snow to show how closely they had pressed him. Sleep was welling up and gripping him again, his head

was sinking down upon his knees, when he roused with a sudden start.

There were cries of men, the churn of sleds, the creaking of harnesses, and the eager whimpering of

straining dogs. Four sleds pulled in from the river bed to the camp among the trees. Half a dozen men were

about the man who crouched in the center of the dying fire. They were shaking and prodding him into

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