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Black Wolf of the Glacier
Alaska's Romeo
By Deb Vanasse, Nancy Slagle UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA PRESS
Copyright © 2013Deb Vanasse
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ISBN: 978-1-60223-197-9
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CHAPTER 1
Long and low, a howl pierced the night.
In warm houses near the frozen lake, dogs perked their ears. Shawna hugged Buddy's neck as he whined at the window. "What's wrong?" she asked.
Again the wolf howled. Inside the house, Buddy barked. Ruff! Ruff! "It's all right," Shawna whispered. "I'm here."
His cries met only with silence, the wolf curled in the snow. His breath frosted his thick, black fur as he slept alone in a sliver of moonlight.
When dawn flooded the sky, the wolf stretched in front of a blue-streaked glacier.
He cocked his head at a rustle from under the snow.
With his big front paws he pounced and pounced until at last he caught a small vole.
After his meager breakfast, the wolf warmed himself in the sun on a big rock, an erratic left by the glacier. He waited and watched. Maybe this was the day another wolf would appear. A playmate. A friend. Or maybe a whole pack of wolves, like the one he'd roamed with when he was a pup.
When the sun dipped in a low arc toward the mountains, the black wolf slipped into the woods. From the trail came the swoosh, swoosh of skis in the snow.
Ears erect, he froze at a flash of bright red and the swishing tail of a dog. From his hidden place in the trees, the wolf whined.
(Continues...)
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