S 6 THE MASTER OF GAME 



old if so be that their teeth are fully grown after 

 their other small teeth which they had first, for 

 they teethe twice in the year when they are whelps. 

 The first teeth they cast when they are half a 

 year old and also their hooks. Then other teeth 

 come to them which they bear all their life-time 

 and never cast. When these are full grown again 

 then they leave their father and mother and go on 

 their adventures, but notwithstanding that they 

 go far they do not bide long away from each 

 other and if it happens that they meet with their 

 father and with their mother the which hath 

 nourished them they will make them joy and 

 great reverence alway. And also I would have 

 you know that when a bitch and a wolf of her 

 kind hath fellowship together they generally stay 

 evermore together, and though they sometimes 

 go to seek their feeding the one far from the 

 other they will be together at night if they can 

 or at the farthest at the end of three days. And 

 such wolves in fellowship together get meat for 

 their whelps the father as well as the mother, 

 save only that the wolf eateth first his fill and 

 then bears the remnant to his whelps. The bitch 

 does not do so for she beareth all her meat to her 

 whelps and eateth with them. And if the wolf 

 is with the whelps when the mother cometh and 

 she bringeth anything and the wolf has not 

 enough he taketh the feeding from her and her 



