Encounters*
''ambuscade'' ▫ᴱᴺ｜encounter｜enc｜20260311162526-00-•
There is a patience of the wild—dogged, tireless, persistent as life itself—that holds motionless for endless hours the spider in its web, the snake in its coils, the panther in its ambuscade; this patience belongs peculiarly to life when it hunts its living food; and it belonged to Buck as he clung to the flank of the herd, retarding its march, irritating the young bulls, worrying the cows with their half-grown calves, and driving the wounded bull mad with helpless rage.
Link to original
@The Call of the Wild ▫𓂃
(echo:: @ ⌗ ⌗)