CHAPTER XI 



THE WARY WOLF 



ONE day in western Wyoming an elk 

 was killed by hunters. It was left 

 lying on the ground all night. Its 

 only protection was a handkerchief tied to one 

 of the horns. Tracks in the snow showed that 

 wolves were about and that they had circled 

 the carcass, but without going close enough 

 to touch it. 



In another instance a deer was left out all 

 night in the wolf country. 



"How did you protect it?" someone asked 

 the hunter. 



"By simply rubbing my hands over it," he 

 answered. 



A mature wolf will not eat or touch anything 

 that has human scent upon it, or that carries the 

 scent of iron or steel, which he evidently asso- 

 ciates with the deadly scent of man. 



A cowboy shot his injured pony and left it 

 lying on the plains. The pony was shod. 

 Wolves did not touch the carcass. On another 

 occasion and in the same locality a pony was 



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