[00:02.31] Chapter seven,
[00:03.10] Friends and enemies.
[00:07.14] White Fang never forgot his mother,
[00:10.29] or stopped longing for the wilderness of his early cubhood.
[00:15.31] But by and by, he began to settle down.
[00:23.70] Grey Beaver never petted him again,
[00:27.96] but he sometimes threw him a hunk of meat and shooed away the other dogs if they tried to steal it.
[00:35.88] That winter, Grey Beaver set out on a long trip overland with his big sled,
[00:43.95] while his young son Mitza had a smaller one pulled by a team of puppies.
[00:50.81] There were seven puppies in Mitza's team, including White Fang.
[00:57.58] The leader was White Fang's old enemy, Lip Lip.
[01:03.44] At first, Lip Lip thought it an honor to be leader,
[01:09.32] but he soon found it was the worst place to be.
[01:14.51] All day long, the other dogs were snapping at his heels.
[01:20.87] Worse still, Mitza gave him extra meat in front of the other dogs, and they hated him for it.
[01:29.29] Lip Lip became an outcast, just as he had once made White Fang.
[01:38.42] One day, Mitza was collecting firewood in the forest when a gang of boys from another tribe attacked him.
[01:49.59] A mad rush of anger rose in White Fang.
[01:54.66] Mitza, his master, was being hurt.
[01:59.74] He leaped at the boys, snarling and snapping, and they fled in terror.
[02:07.95] When Mitza told the story in camp, Grey Beaver gave White Fang a huge piece of meat.
[02:19.11] The cub then lay down full and happy by the fire.
[02:25.75] He had just learned a valuable new lesson.
[02:31.50] Protect your master and you will be rewarded.
[02:38.71] When spring came, Grey Beaver and his team went back home.
[02:45.27] White Fang was now a year old.
[02:50.30] Although a long way from being fully grown, after Lip Lip, he was the biggest yearling in camp.
[02:59.96] As the months went by, White Fang grew even stronger.
[03:06.65] From his mother, he had a dog's size and cleverness, and from his father, the cunning and strength of a wolf.
[03:20.74] When White Fang was three years old, there was a great famine in the camp.
[03:28.20] There was no food, not even for the man animals, and the old and the weak were dying from hunger.
[03:38.45] Several dogs, including White Fang, ran off into the forest to find food for themselves.
[03:47.83] Time passed.
[03:50.44] Then one day, White Fang was out hunting when he sensed something behind him.
[03:58.83] He knew the scent, and it was not pleasant.
[04:04.84] He turned.
[04:07.82] A dog stood on the path in front of him.
[04:13.17] It was his old enemy, Lip Lip.
[04:19.45] The two animals stared at each other.
[04:24.66] The hairs on White Fang's back bristled and the old anger flooded back.
[04:32.48] He snarled.
[04:35.66] Lip Lip backed away, then White Fang sprang at him, knocking him to the ground.
[04:45.19] He showed no mercy to the old bully.
[04:49.80] He was even at last.
[04:54.89] Not long after this, he returned to the village.
[05:01.01] The famine was over and he smelled food.
[05:07.63] He trotted boldly into Grey Beaver's teepee.
[05:13.71] Mitza welcomed him with happy cries and gave him a whole fish.