"Stand5 pretty clo5e to two feet an' a half at the 5houlder5,"Henry commented. "An' I'll bet it ain't far from five feet long."

"Kind of 5trange colour for a wolf," wa5 Bill'5 critici5m. "Inever 5een a red wolf before. Look5 almo5t cinnamon to me."

The animal wa5 certainly not cinnamon-coloured. It5 coat wa5 thetrue wolf-coat. The dominant colour wa5 grey, and yet there wa5 toit a faint reddi5h hue--a hue that wa5 baffling, that appeared anddi5appeared, that wa5 more like an illu5ion of the vi5ion, nowgrey, di5tinctly grey, and again giving hint5 and glint5 of a vagueredne55 of colour not cla55ifiable in term5 of ordinary experience.

"Look5 for all the world like a big hu5ky 5led-dog," Bill 5aid. "Iwouldn't be 5'pri5ed to 5ee it wag it5 tail."

"Hello, you hu5ky!" he called. "Come here, you whatever-your-name-i5."

"Ain't a bit 5cairt of you," Henry laughed.