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in the night, the Lapland dog had been growling
uneasily the whole time as if he saw or heard
something. He himself had thought he saw the
dark form of what might have been a wolf
sneaking about outside the house. Once he had
thought he heard the sound of voices from the
cow-stable, he was quite relieved when he heard
it was me talking in my sleep. The hens had
been cackling and restless the whole night.
“Do you see that?” said Uncle Lars pointing
to a trail in the fresh snow leading up to my
window. “There must have been at least three of
them. I have lived here for over thirty years and
I have never seen the trail of a wolf so near the
house. Do you see that?” he said pointing to
another trail in the snow as big as the footstep of
a man. “I thought I was dreaming when I saw
it first. As sure as my name is Lars Anders the
bear has been here to-night and this is the trail of
her cub. It is ten years since I shot a bear in
this forest. Do you hear that chattering in the
big fir by the cow-stable? There must be a
couple of dozens of them, I never saw so many
squirrels in one tree in my whole life. Did you
hear the hooting of the owl in the forest and the
calling of the loon from the lake the whole night?
Did you hear the nightjar spinning round the
house at daybreak? I cannot make it out, as a
rule the whole forest is silent as a grave after
dark. Why have all these animals come here
this night? Neither Kerstin nor I have slept a
wink. Kerstin thinks it is the Lapp child who
has bewitched the house, but she says she had
been baptized in Rukne last summer. But one
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