CHAPTER VI--THE FAMINE

The spring of the year was at hand when Grey Beaver finished his long journey. It was April, and White Fang was a year old when he pulled into the home villages and was loosed from the harness by Mit-sah. Though a long way from his full growth, White Fang, next to Lip-lip, was the largest yearling in the village. Both from his father, the wolf, and from Kiche, he had inherited stature and strength, and already he was measuring up alongside the full-grown dogs. But he had not yet grown compact. His body was slender and rangy, and his strength more stringy than massive, His coat was the true wolf-grey, and to all appearances he was true wolf himself. The quarter-strain of dog he had inherited from Kiche had left no mark on him physically, though it had played its part in his mental make-up.

He wandered through the village, recognising with staid satisfaction the various gods he had known before the long journey. Then there were the dogs, puppies growing up like himself, and grown dogs that did not look so large and formidable as the memory pictures he retained of them. Also, he stood less in fear of them than formerly, stalking among them with a certain careless ease that was as new to him as it was enjoyable.

There was Baseek, a grizzled old fellow that in his younger days had but to uncover his fangs to send White Fang cringing and crouching to the right about. From him White Fang had learned much of his own insignificance; and from him he was now to learn much of the change and development that had taken place in himself. While Baseek had been growing weaker with age, White Fang had been growing stronger with youth.

1. Who was the old dog in the story who taught the younger one?
2. Who was the younger one?
3. What had he learned from Baseek?
4. What was he going to learn?
5. Which of them was getting weaker?
6. And more powerful?
7. How old was he when he came into the home village?
8. What season was it?
9. Was he let off his leash?
10. By whom?
11. Was he fully grown yet?
12. Was he the biggest one year old in the area?
13. Who was bigger?
14. What was White Fang's father?
15. What had he gotten from his dad?
16. Who else did he get these things from?
17. What color was he?
18. Did he appear to be a dog?
19. How much of his ancestry was dog?
20. Did this affect the way he thought?

Provide a numbered list of answers.
1. Baseek
2. White Fang
3. his own insignificance
4. the change and development that had taken place in himself
5. Baseek
6. White Fang
7. a year old
8. spring
9. yes
10. Mit-sah
11. no
12. no
13. Lip-lip
14. a wolf
15. stature and strength
16. Kiche
17. wolf-grey
18. no
19. one quarter
20. yes