The Shadow of the Wolf by Gloria Whelan

Author:Gloria Whelan [Whelan, Gloria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-55959-3
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 1997-10-31T05:00:00+00:00

We watched as the wolf gathered its strength and struggled to its feet. It stood for several minutes, holding up its injured foot. Slowly, the wolf hobbled away into the woods. Twice it stopped and looked back at us. Soon it was lost among the trees and tall grasses.

I was careful not to give away our secret. But that night I had a question for Papa. “How can the Indians use cruel traps with steel teeth?”

“Once the Indians used a different kind of trap,” Papa said. “Poles were pounded into the ground to make a circle. In the middle was an opening. When the animal walked into the opening and began to eat the bait, a board was released that closed off the entrance. But now the traders sell traps with steel teeth to the Indians.”

That night I dreamed of the wolf. In my dream the wolf had no injured foot. It bounded through the woods, nimble and happy and free.

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