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Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

CHAPTER 1

A Seventh Dog

CHAPTER 2

An Accident

CHAPTER 3

The Attack

CHAPTER 4

Rescued

CHAPTER 5

Choosing a Mate

CHAPTER 6

Exploration

CHAPTER 7

The Rule of the Wild

CHAPTER 8

A New Way of Life

CHAPTER 9

Lip-lip

CHAPTER 10

A Work Dog

CHAPTER 11

Escape

CHAPTER 12

Home Again

CHAPTER 13

The Famine

CHAPTER 14

Beauty Smith

CHAPTER 15

A New Arrangement

CHAPTER 16

The Fighting Wolf

CHAPTER 17

Weedon Scott

CHAPTER 18

Taming the Wolf

CHAPTER 19

Abandoned

CHAPTER 20

On to California

CHAPTER 21

Weedon’s Home

CHAPTER 22

The Chicken Coop

CHAPTER 23

Weedon Gets Injured

CHAPTER 24

Jim Hall’s Revenge

CHAPTER 25

A Family of His Own

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