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The Winnipeg Wolf

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📖 Pages26
⏰ Reading time 1 hour
💡 Originally published1905
🌏 Original language English
📌 Type Stories
📌 Genres Adventure, Psychological, Realism

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I

It was during the great blizzard of 1882 that I first met the Winnipeg Wolf.
I had left St. Paul in the middle of March to cross the prairies to Winnipeg, expecting to be there in twenty-four hours, but the Storm King had planned it otherwise and sent a heavy-laden eastern blast.
The snow came down in a furious, steady torrent, hour after hour.
Never before had I seen such a storm.
All the world was lost in snow — snow, snow, snow — whirling, biting, stinging, drifting snow — and the puffing, monstrous engine was compelled to stop at the command of those tiny feathery crystals of spotless purity.
Many strong hands with shovels came to the delicately curled snowdrifts that barred our way, and in an hour the engine could pass — only to stick in another drift yet farther on.
It was dreary work — day after day, night after night, sticking in the drifts, digging ourselves out, and still the snow went whirling and playing about us.
"Twenty-two hours to Emerson," said the official; but nearly two weeks of digging passed before we did reach Emerson, and the poplar country where the thickets stop all drifting of the snow.
Thenceforth the train went swiftly, the poplar woods grew more thickly — we passed for miles through solid forests, then perhaps through an open space.
As we neared St. Boniface, the eastern outskirts of Winnipeg, we dashed across a little glade fifty yards wide, and there in the middle was a group that stirred me to the very soul.
In plain view was a great rabble of Dogs, large and small, black, white, and yellow, wriggling and heaving this way and that way in a rude ring; to one side was a little yellow Dog stretched and quiet in the snow; on the outer part of the ring was a huge black Dog bounding about and barking, but keeping ever behind the moving mob.
And in the midst, the centre and cause of it all, was a great, grim, Wolf.
Wolf?
He looked like a Lion.
There he stood, all alone — resolute-calm — with bristling mane, and legs braced firmly, glancing this way and that, to be ready for an attack in any direction.
There was a curl on his lips — it looked like scorn, but I suppose it was really the fighting snarl of tooth display.
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