Black Star, Bright Dawn by Scott O'Dell

Author:Scott O'Dell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

It stopped snowing and a weak sun came out, but the wind still blew hard from the north. I passed two teams camped beside the trail. Close to dusk I came upon a third team. The driver was pulled up behind some trees, feeding his dogs.

He raised a hand and shouted, "Watch for moose. Two big ones just trotted by." He pointed down the trail to Rohn. "I'd wait, young lady. You can get into trouble," he shouted.

"I just passed one," I shouted back, thinking that he was not warning me but trying to slow me down.

But in a short time, as the trail climbed a hill and went down again over a bridge and frozen stream, I saw the moose, the ones the driver had warned me about. There were two of them, as he had said, a bull and a cow. The bull was big. Each of my dogs weighed over seventy pounds. The bull looked bigger than all of them put together.

When she heard the dogs bark, the cow took to the stream and disappeared. But the bull stood sideways on the bridge and did not move. I pulled up the team as soon as I was sure that he meant to stay there.

Off to the right of the bridge were patches of earth and rocks where the wind had swept the snow clean. I shouted "Gee!" for right turns, then "Haw!" for left turns, and Black Star picked his way through the clean patches.

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