1 A tree, contracting in the cool of the night, made a loud noise.
White Fang By Jack LondonContextHighlight In PART 3: CHAPTER IV THE TRAIL OF THE GODS 2 Four sleds pulled in from the river bed to the camp among the trees.
3 It ran up the tree, and from a point of safety chattered back savagely.
White Fang By Jack LondonContextHighlight In PART 2: CHAPTER IV THE WALL OF THE WORLD 4 She crept out cautiously on the edge of a large open space in the midst of the trees.
White Fang By Jack LondonContextHighlight In PART 2: CHAPTER I THE BATTLE OF THE FANGS 5 Through the trees the mouth of the alley could be seen, opening out on a moonlit glade.
White Fang By Jack LondonContextHighlight In PART 2: CHAPTER I THE BATTLE OF THE FANGS 6 For in that instant the she-wolf leaped sidewise from the trail into the clump of spruce trees and disappeared.
7 Once at the tree, he studied the surrounding forest in order to fell the tree in the direction of the most firewood.
8 It paused, head up, close by a clump of spruce trees, and with sight and scent studied the outfit of the watching men.
9 He stalked the quarry and found it to be a porcupine, standing upright against a tree and trying his teeth on the bark.
10 At the fall of darkness they swung the dogs into a cluster of spruce trees on the edge of the waterway and made a camp.
White Fang By Jack LondonContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER I THE TRAIL OF THE MEAT 11 Chopping down young saplings, he made them cross-bars of a scaffold by lashing them high up to the trunks of standing trees.
12 He spent half the day extending his campfire to the tree, at any moment a half dozen burning faggots ready at hand to fling at his enemies.
13 Somewhere out there in the snow, screened from his sight by trees and thickets, Henry knew that the wolf-pack, One Ear, and Bill were coming together.
14 The trees had been stripped by a recent wind of their white covering of frost, and they seemed to lean towards each other, black and ominous, in the fading light.
White Fang By Jack LondonContextHighlight In PART 1: CHAPTER I THE TRAIL OF THE MEAT 15 She turned and trotted back into the forest, to the great relief of One Eye, who trotted a little to the fore until they were well within the shelter of the trees.
White Fang By Jack LondonContextHighlight In PART 2: CHAPTER I THE BATTLE OF THE FANGS 16 The hollows under fallen trees seemed to attract her, and she spent much time nosing about among the larger snow-piled crevices in the rocks and in the caves of overhanging banks.
White Fang By Jack LondonContextHighlight In PART 2: CHAPTER I THE BATTLE OF THE FANGS 17 But when, one morning, the air was rent with the report of a rifle close at hand, and a bullet smashed against a tree trunk several inches from One Eye's head, they hesitated no more, but went off on a long, swinging lope that put quick miles between them and the danger.
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