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share in rearing the young ones. It has been found 

 that directly the young wolves begin to run about, the 

 male, soon after feeding, casts up from his stomach a 

 considerable portion of his half-digested meal which 

 the cubs eagerly devour.' Would anyone, I ask you, 

 interpret the phrase, ' directly the young wolves begin 

 to run about,' to mean, directly the male wolf, after 

 having been excluded from the cage until the danger 

 to his cubs has passed, is restored to the company of 

 the female ? Yet this is what it means. But how 

 much more this tells us than the unilluminating phrase, 

 ' when the young wolves begin to run about ' ! For 

 it tells us of the marvellous change which has taken 

 place, all at once as it were, in the male, transformed 

 from a creature ravening to devour its young, to the 

 kind parent feeding them from the contents of his 

 own stomach. 



" Mr. Bartlett continues : ' It is remarkable to find 

 that upon the male being removed, the female immedi- 

 ately commences to do the same thing, namely, to cast 

 up a large portion of her half -digested food for the 

 cubs.' Now I might make here a plausible charge of 

 dishonest statement against Mr. Bartlett. But I 

 should act very wrongly in doing so. Mr. Bartletb 

 was not a practised literary expert, and so inad- 

 vertently strayed in his relation. The only time 

 when the male is removed from the female is before 

 the pregnancy of the latter. He would certainly 

 not be removed when he is assisting her in feeding 

 the cubs. Therefore it is the male who continues to 



