Текст книги "Never Cry Wolf"

Автор книги: Farley Mowat

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I was appalled at the realization of how easily I had forgotten, and how readily I had denied, all that the summer sojourn with the wolves had taught me about them…and about myself. I thought of Angelina and her pup cowering at the bottom of the den where they had taken refuge from the thundering apparition of the aircraft, and I was shamed.

Somewhere to the eastward a wolf howled; lightly, questioningly. I knew the voice, for I had heard it many times before. It was George, sounding the wasteland for an echo from the missing members of his family. But for me it was a voice which spoke of the lost world which once was ours before we chose the alien role; a world which I had glimpsed and almost entered…only to be excluded, at the end, by my own self.

Epilogue

During the winter of 1958–1959 the Canadian Wildlife Service, in pursuance of its continuing policy of wolf control, employed several Predator Control officers to patrol the Keewatin Barrens in ski-equipped aircraft for the purpose of setting out poison bait stations.

In early May of 1959, one of these officers landed at Wolf House Bay. He remained in the vicinity for some hours and placed a number of cyanide “wolf getters” in appropriate places near the which, so he ascertained, was occupied. He also spread a number of strychnine-treated baits in the vicinity.

He was unable to return at a later date to check on this control station, because of the early onset of the spring thaws.

It is not known what results were obtained.

CONTENTS

Title Page

Dedication

Preface

1 The Lupine Project

2 Wolf Juice

3 Happy Landings

4 When Is a Wolf Not a Wolf?

5 Contact!

6 The Den