then they would creep and watch and listen 

 till they could locate the game by a stir 

 under the moss, and pounce upon it and 

 nose it out from between their paws, just as 

 they had done with the grasshoppers. And 

 when they crunched it at last like a ripe plum 

 under their teeth it was a delicious tidbit, 

 worth all the trouble they had taken to 

 get it. For your wolf, unlike the ferocious, 

 grandmother-eating creature of the nursery, 

 is at heart a peaceable fellow, most at home 

 and most happy when mouse hunting. 



There was another kind of this mouse 

 chasing which furnished better sport and 

 more juicy mouthfuls to the young cubs. 

 Here and there on the Newfoundland moun- 

 tains the snow lingers all summer long. In 

 every northern hollow of the hills you see, 

 from a distance, white patches no bigger than 

 your hat sparkling in the sun ; but when you 

 climb there, after bear or caribou, you find 

 great snow-fields, acres in extent and from 

 ten to a hundred feet deep, packed close and [/ 

 hard with the pressure of a thousand winters. 

 Often when it rains in the valleys, and raises 



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