High
up on a snowy mountain stood a cabin and in this cabin lived an old man and his
pet dog. The old man’s heart was as cold as the snow; he was cruel to anybody
and anything he saw including his pet dog. His pet dog did her best to make her
master happy, but all she got was a lot of rude shouts and abuse from him.
There were even times when he would chuck her out of the cabin and leave her to
defend herself for a whole week. There was nothing the poor dog could do about
her master’s cruelty.
One wintery day the dog secretly gave
birth to some puppies. This made her worry; her master had always said that one
dog was enough trouble for him, so having more dogs in the cabin would make him
mad. So the dog kept her puppies hidden in an animal den, and in there she
would feed her puppies and sleep with them. She was happy to be a mother.
But one night the old man found the
dog sleeping in the den with her puppies. Seeing the puppies of course made him
furious and in a fit of rage he beat the puppies to death with a big stick. The
poor mother dog tried to stop her master and save her puppies, but she was
beaten to die too. The old man didn’t care or feel regret of what he had done.
While dying, the mother dog was angry
and upset with what her owner did. It was bad enough that he had abused her but
killing her and her puppies was the worst, and this time she could not forgive
her owner for his cruelty. With her last breath she howled very loudly as if
she was praying for her master to be punished for what he did. Then she died
along with her puppies.
Suddenly a very strong snow storm
with very strong winds appeared out of nowhere. It was like the blizzard had
answered the dog’s dying howl and the wind sounded like it was howling back to
her. The strong winds of the blizzard caused the snowy mountain to start an
avalanche. The avalanche fell straight to the old man’s cabin and killed him at
once. This was his punishment for killing his dog and her puppies. So the dog and
her puppies got justice and could rest in peace in heave, while the cruel old
man was sent to hell.
And even though the dog was gone, very
strong winds in very strong blizzards still sound like a dog’s howling.
