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er's knowledge of these animals. We have many thrillingly interesting 

 stories in our own literature which deal with our native wolves. The 

 following are among the best : 



"Lobo" in Wild Animals I Have Known; "Tito" in Lives of the 

 Hunted; "Bad Lands Billy and the Winnipeg Wolf" in Animal Heroes 

 all by Thompson Seton; "The Passing of Black Whelps" in Watchers of 

 the Trail by Roberts; Northern Trails by Long; "Pico, Coyote" by Coolidge 

 in True Tales of Birds and Beasts. 



For more serious accounts of the wolves see American Animals, 

 p. 277; The "Hound of the Plains, "in Wild Neighbors, and page 188 in 

 the Life of Animals, both by Ingersoll. "The Coyote" by Bret Harte and 

 "The Law of the Pack" in the Second Jungle Book bring the wolf 

 into poetry. 



From some or all of these stories, the pupils should get informa- 

 tion about the habits of the wolves. This information should be in- 

 corporated in an essay or an oral exercise and should cover the folio wing 

 points: Where do the wolves live? On what do they feed? How 

 do they get their prey? Do they hunt alone or in packs? How do they 

 call to each other? Description of the den where the young are reared. 

 The wolf 's cleverness in eluding hunters and traps. 



'Katrina Wolfchen", the pet coyote of Professor Fred S. Charles. 



