Argosy (UK), January 1955 — page 40: what you’re looking at

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- ~ - a i tie “ - * 24 TOM HOPKINSON = - front of Garrod’s sledge had cracked, and a long splinter ran~ = oP into the reindeer’s hock and then broke off, leaving a jagged wound. Olmai gazed at it in dismay. _ He seemed incapable of action. He’d stopped in order to _ listen, or whatever he did to gauge the wolf’s whereabouts. Now ~ he was torn between wanting to rush back home, and wanting to _ attend to his reindeer. He simply hung there, pulled both ways. _ Aimo had stopped his own sledge and came up. — _ “Make him push off! ”’ Garrod exclaimed. “ He’s the only _ one who can get home quickly. ‘Tell him to go. We can fix © 3 up the reindeer, then follow his tracks.” < =- Aimo nodded, spoke sharply to Olmai, who vanished through _ the trees, and the two men got to work. They unharnessed the _ reindeer and tied it to a branch. Then Aimo took a firm hold of. _ its leg and Garrod, after some trouble and a broken nail, suc- _ ceeded in drawing out the long splinter. =a By this time he was so cold the only way he could get a purchase on it was with his teeth. This he did, expecting all the time to have his face laid open by the reindeer’s free hoof. The wound bled nastily at first, but they soon stopped that by plastering the __ _ place with snow. ee: There were skis in both sledges in case of accident, and Gar- rod insisted on putting his on, and leading the injured reindeer home. Aimo coupled one sledge behind the other and followed. Inside the hut there was chaos, and it took some time before _ Garrod could learn what had happened. Olmai had seen the wolf. He’d rounded up his half-dozen sheep, then dashed in- - doors. All the family were there, except the smallest child. A _ desperate hunt through the woods had taken place, before she was found playing with the men’s belongings in the bath-house. __ Once she was safe, Olmai had gone straight off on skis to hunt _ the wolf. Aimo, thinking perhaps of that million marks, aug Fe _ up his rifle from the bath- house, and went too. ___ Olmai had evidently told his wife about the injured reindee . _ for she was stirring some kind of a poultice on the stove. As *e soon as it was ready she went with Garrod to apply it. Asthey | _ were leaving, having put the reindeer into a shed for the night, __ the beast nuzzled up to Garrod in the way horses do. He thought nothing of this, but Olmai’s wife, when she noticed it, : nearly dropped all she was carrying. ee : ““ Hren, hren,” she exclaimed as if something wonderful had happened. Garrod smiled, which was all he could do, and went | into the hut to have some food. Hours later, Olmai and Aimo came back together. They'd lost the wolf near the Russian border, but Olmai had shot a fox. It comicbhooks.com