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cubs would remember the lesson, and every 

 free wolf would curb his hunger, obeying the 

 silent signal to ease the game and follow 

 slowly while the leader raced unseen through 

 the woods to head the game and lie in am- 

 bush by the distant runway. 



From grasshoppers the cubs took to hunt- 

 ing the wood-mice that nested in the dry 

 moss and swarmed on the edges of every 

 thicket. This was keener hunting; for the 

 wood-mouse moves like a ray of light, and 

 always makes at least one false start to mis- 

 lead any that may be watching for him. 

 The cubs soon learned that when Tookhees 

 appeared and dodged back again, as if fright- 

 ened, it was not because he had seen them, 

 but just because he always appears that way. 

 So they crouched and hid, like a cat, and 

 when a gray streak shot over the gray moss 

 and vanished in a tuft of grass they leaped 

 for the spot — and always found it vacant. 

 For Tookhees always doubles on his trail, or 

 burrows for a distance under the moss, and 

 never hides where he disappears. It took 

 the cubs a long while to find that out ; and 



