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low whine; he followed unwillingly. She circled 
around the tempting carcass; a new smell was 
recorded — Coyote trail-scent, soon followed by 
Coyote body-scent. Yes, there they were 
sneaking along a near ridge, and now as she 
passed to one side the samples changed, the 
wind had lost nearly every trace of Calf; mis- 
cellaneous, commonplace, and_ uninteresting 
smells were there instead. The human track- 
scent was as before, the trace of leather was 
gone, but fully one-half per cent. of iron-odor, 
and body-smell of man raised to nearly two 
per cent. 
Fully alarmed, she conveyed her fear to the 
Cub, by her rigid pose, her air intent, and her 
slightly bristling mane. 
She continued her round. At one time on 
a high place the human body-scent was doubly 
strong, then as she dropped it faded. Then 
the wind brought the full calf-odor with sev- 
eral track-scents of Coyotes and sundry Birds. 
Her suspicions were lulling as in a small- 
ing circle she neared the tempting feast from 
the windward side. She had even advanced 
straight toward it for a fewsteps when the sweaty 
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