pitch-dry

Updated: May 19, 2025

"Have you ever seen a fire run through a pitch-dry forest?" he asked. "That is the way word that Josephine wanted friends would sweep through a thousand square miles of this Northland. And the answer to it would be like the answer of stray wolves to the cry of the hunt-pack!" All over Philip there surged a warm glow. "You could not have friends like that down there, in the cities," he said.

James Oliver Curwood - God's Country—And the Woman