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HE SHE-WOLF, an excerpt
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en and the slim camp-outfit lashed to the sled, the men turned their backs on the cheery fire and launched out into the darkness.
to rise the cries that were fiercely sad-cries that called through the darkness and cold to one another and answered back.
ceased. Daylight came at nine o'clock. At midday the sky to the south warmed to rose-colour, and marked where the bulge of the
ed between the meridian sun and the northern world. But the rose-colour swiftly faded. The grey light of day that remained lasted
lock, when it too, faded, and the pall of the Arctic night descended upon the lone and silent land.
ame on, the hunting-cries to right and left and rear drew closer-so close that more than once they sent surges of fear through
s, throwing them into short-lived panics.
ion of one such panic, when he and Henry had got the dogs back in the traces, Bill said:
strike game somewheres, an' go away an' leave us alone."
on the nerves horrible," Henry sympathized.
o more until camp was made.
from the story:
em into short-lived panics.
ffect of the word panic on the story? (5 points)
It creates a mood of despair and surrender.
It makes the characters' fears seem unimportant.
It offers some relief to the unending worry.
It suggests what the characters should be feeling.