The call of the wild

know. It is a great, gloriously coated wolf, like, and yet unlike, all other wolves. He crosses alone from the smiling timber land and comes down into an open space among the trees. Here a yellow stream flows from rotted moose-hide sacks and sinks into the ground, with long grasses growing through it and vegetable mold overrunning it and hiding its yellow from the sun; and here he muses for a time, howling once, long and mournfully, ere he departs.
    But he is not always alone. When the long winter nights come on and the wolves follow their meat into the lower valleys, he may be seen running at the head of the pack through the pale moonlight or glimmering borealis, leaping gigantic above his fellows, his great throat a-bellow as he sings a song of the younger world, which is the song



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The Call of The Wild
    ISBN 978-5-906073-05-1
A Jack London Book
    Published in Europe by ALEXEY DARANOV,
    This ebook edition published 2012
    Copyright: Jack London, 1903
    First Published in the USA
    Illustrations © Alexey Daranov Studio, 2012
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