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Title: Spirit Lake
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Heming, Arthur, 1871-1940
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Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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rearedto strike him. The ball entered its heart.It fell heavily, and in falling its horn struckthe boy on the head as he was rolling aside,and crushed him into the snow. 106 SPIRIT LAKE When the sun had withdrawn the shadowthat the trees threw over the two motionlessfigures, and when the wind had begun to burythem with drifting snow, a wolf came out ofthe woods, made three spiral circles roundthem, and hesitated a moment as though infear of some ones approach. Then, loweringhead and tail, it trotted off. Presently Standing Wolf and Noo-koomcame upon the scene. The old womancaught sight of the boys foot protrudingabove the snow, and gave a piercing scream.She rushed forward and began franticallydigging away the snow, while StandingWolf dragged and tugged at the moosesheavy head. When Noo-koom felt the boyscold face, she sank back despairingly, and,while Standing Wolf was raising the body upand placing it on his sled, began to wailthe death chant. Standing Wolf cut off the head of the ^
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V c u3 o E -a<u•a 3 o VI c<u Jco 3 -aoo CO c <D -o 4)OC o c 3 to 10 S -a crt X)0):-•Xh JZ o JZ THE TALKING MOOSE 107 moose, and slung it upon his back. Then,bidding Noo-koom rise and haul the sled, hewent ahead to beat the path. Slowly they entered the forest and tooktheir tortuous way in and out among thetrees, and over and under the fallen timber.They crossed a lake and came upon a stripof burnt country, where the charred andlimbless trunks of a once dense forest stoodlike a multitude of black-enshrouded mourn-ers, as the pitiful little funeral passed on itsway. At the trapping path they found TheMarten, and near him a heap of frozenanimals taken from At-ticks trapping trail.Among them Standing Wolf noticed thecarcass of the wolverine, and set the head ofthe Moose down beside it. He busied himself unlacing the sled onwhich the body of the unfortunate At-ticklay, while the others dispersed in search of lOS SPIRIT LAKE poles for a scaffold upon which to place theremains.

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