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This is a story of Wolf, who was a throwback—the son of those beautiful thoroughbreds, Lad and Lady, but lacking the physical perfection of either; a graceless lumbering puppy who could contrive through a combination of high spirits and bad luck, to make of himself a thoroughgoing nuisance and a thorn in the flesh of his Master.
Forsaking childish ways, Wolf grew in wisdom and in charm to such a degree that he became acknowledged King of the Place, reigning among its little people and in the hearts of his owners. And in the end Wolf performed an act of the highest heroism, giving his life to save another dog.
Mr. Terhune chronicles Wolf's life and death as only he knows how, with the clear critical faculty of one who knows dogs through and through.
—from the dust jacket
Terhune penned many books about the dogs he kept and trained on the Sunnybank estate throughout the 1920s and 30s. Wolf, is Terhune's classic story of the funny-looking purebred collie who was somewhat an outsider with a matching personality. Wolf the dog himself became famous posthumously when his heroic death was recorded in nearly every paper in America. This early work by Albert Payson Terhune was originally published in 1925.
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