By night the cubs had already caught 

 several rabbits, snapping them up as they 

 played heedlessly in the moonlight, just as 

 they had done with the wood-mice. By day, 

 however, the hunting was entirely different. 

 Then the hares and rabbits are resting in 

 their hidden forms under the ferns, or in a 

 hollow between the roots of a brown stump. 

 Like game birds, whether on the nest or 

 sitting quiet in hiding, the rabbits give out 

 far less scent at such times than when they 

 are active; and the cubs, stealing through 

 the dense cover like shadows in imitation of 

 the old wolves, and always hunting up-wind, 

 would use their keen noses to locate Mok- 

 taques before alarming him. If a cub suc- 

 ceeded, and snapped up a rabbit before the 

 surprised creature had time to gather head- 

 way, he dropped behind with his catch, while 

 the rest went slowly, carefully, on through 

 the cover. If he failed, as was generally the 

 case at first, a curious bit of wolf intelligence 

 and wolf training came out at once. 



As the wolves advanced the father and 

 mother would steal gradually ahead at either 



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