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intelligent animals, and most of what they 

 learn is due simply to following the mother. 

 Soon the cubs were still, one lying here under 

 shadow of a bush, another there by a gray 

 rock that lifted its head out of the snow. 

 As a dark streak moved nervously by one of 

 these hiding-places there would be a rush, 

 a snap, the pchap pchap of jaws crunching a 

 delicious morsel ; then all quiet again, with 

 only gray, innocent-looking shadows resting 

 softly on the snow. So they moved gradu- 

 ally along the edges of the great white field; 

 and next morning the tracks were all there, 

 plain as daylight, telling their silent story of 

 good hunting. 



To vary their diet the mother now took 

 them down to the shore to hunt among the 

 rocks for ducks' eggs. They were there by 

 the hundreds, scattered along the lonely bays 

 just above high-water line, where the eiders 

 had their nests. 



At first old mother wolf showed them 

 where to look, and when she had found a 

 clutch of eggs would divide them fairly, 

 keeping the hungry cubs in order at a little 



