Purchase one of 1st World Librarys Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Dark spruce forest frowned on either side the frozen waterway. 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. A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation lifeless without move-ment so lone and cold that the spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was a hint in it of laughter but of a laughter more terrible than any sadness - a laughter that was mirthless as the smile of the sphinx a laughter cold as the frost and partaking of the grimness of infallibility. It was the masterful and incommuni-cable wisdom of eternity laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the Wild the savage frozen-hearted Northland Wild.