Reader, did you ever hear the wolves howl in the old woods of a Still night!

It was the wolf howl, not yet quite born.

Let the wolf howl!

How the wolf howls!

Hilarion, as Hierome reports in his life, and Athanasius of Antonius, was so bare with fasting, "that the skin did scarce stick to the bones; for want of vapours he could not sleep, and for want of sleep became idleheaded, heard every night infants cry, oxen low, wolves howl, lions roar" (as he thought), "clattering of chains, strange voices, and the like illusions of devils."

Her snow mantle fell, and the three ferocious wolves howled less savagely.

"When the man heard the wolves howl and saw how many there were after him, he lost his head, and it did not occur to him that he ought to dump his casks and jugs out of the sledge, to lighten the load.

"Just then the wolves howled savagely.

We who are used to it do not mind so much, but a person accustomed to daily papers and frequent posts would seem entirely out of the world," she said, thinking of the long, long nights, when the wolves howled in the woods, and the silent weeks when the falls were frozen; and she wondered how this man, who had been brought up in cities, could bear to think of such a life.

There, hungry wolves howled, and there we found and buried the bleaching bones of Mr. Sallé, a member of the Hastings train, who had been shot by Indians.

We were not gone half over the plain, when we began to hear the wolves howl in the wood on our left in a frightful manner, and presently after we saw about a hundred coming on directly towards us, all in a body, and most of them in a line, as regularly as an army drawn up by experienced officers.

They beheld no signs of human life save their own, but invariably in the night, and often in the day, they heard distant wolves howling.

The howling of wolves came from the distance with the occasional gusts of wind, and as often as the wolves howled, a mysterious, melancholy booming sounded from the deeper shadows along the shores.

Again wolves howled, but so far in the distance that the sound came as the faintest echo.

Armies of caribou drifted by, ghostly under the aurora, moose, lordly and scornful, stalked majestically along the shore; wolves howled invisible, or trotted dog-like in organized packs along the river banks.

Again the nights were long, again the frost crept down from the eternal snow, again the wolves howled across barren wastes.

The antelope fleetly runs, and the coyote skulks away from the track, and the gray wolf howls afar off.

Over it for a few nights the coyotes and grey wolves howled and fought; then would come a fresh layer of white, and the spot where it had been would merge once more into the universal colour scheme.

When the gun wolves howl.

When the gun wolves howl.

A WINTER EVENING Sable clouds by tempest driven, Snowflakes whirling in the gales, Harkit sounds like grim wolves howling, Harknow like a child it wails!

The wolves howled on the prairie, and the screech-owls cried pitifully in the grove; but I was happy.

Steve touched him again, a bit harder, and he howledthe regular long wolf howl.

Our second night in the woods we could hear the wolves howling as we camped at dusk.

But in those long nights when Gustav Vasa listened to the hungry wolves howling in the woods and nosing about his retreat, it was hardly kingly conceits his mind brooded over.