THE WOLF 



animal investigating here and another there, 

 while the main trail leads on. Dogs, two or more, 

 show no clear-cut single trail even for so short a 

 space as ten feet, while a number of wolves often 

 travel several hundred yards with the trail show- 

 ing as though only one animal had made it. If 

 one sees a wolf trail, and without following it 

 concludes that it was made by a single specimen, 

 he is liable to make the same mistake " Liver-eat- 

 ing " Johnson made with a bunch of horse-steal- 

 ing Indians. He was stopping with a friend, 

 Eugene Irvin, also an old Indian fighter, and 

 one morning noticed about fifty horse-tracks, of 

 which he concluded only about half-a-dozen were 

 made by horses mounted by redskins. Instead 

 of following out on the prairies and deciding 

 there from the comparative absence of dust in 

 the tracks a rider is not mixed up with the herd 

 he is driving, and consequently in his mount's 

 tracks less dust is to be found he hurried back 

 to induce Irvin to join him in the pursuit of the 

 Indians. Now that old scout was not as eager 

 for the horses as " Liver-eating," and not at all 

 for a fight, but for old friendship's sake said he 



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