“We found a wolf’s head near your wigwam, and we smelled the tracks of some one that went around the lake,” said the leader wolf.
“My brother has gone, my sister has gone, my little wolf has gone; I shall starve and freeze,” said the boy.
“Come with us,” said the leader wolf; “come and be one of us.”
The boy ran after the pack, and as he ran he began to chant:
I am changing into a wolf.
The wolves are better than my brother;
The wolves are better than my sister.
I am changing into a wolf.
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He ran very slowly; the wolves began to howl as if some strange creature were near, and the boy saw his own brother in a tree over his head. The older brother begged the wolves to go away. The little one was now a wolf, and he called to the pack to follow him, for he had found the track of a deer.