ANEW experience had come to the little |s*|; 

 wolf cubs in a single night, — the ex- 0^ 

 perience of fear. For weeks they had lain hid 

 in the dark den, or played fearlessly in the 

 bright sunshine, guarded and kept at every 

 moment, day or night, by the gaunt old mother 

 wolf that was their only law, their only com- 

 panion. At times they lay for hours hungry 

 and restless, longing to go out into the bright 

 world, yet obeying a stronger will than their 

 own, even at a distance. For, once a wild 

 mother in her own dumb way has bidden her 



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