game, whether grouse or hare or fox or luci- 

 vee, was hiding in the cover, and then for 

 one wolf to drive it, slowly or swiftly as the 

 case might require, while the other hid beside 

 the most likely path of escape. A family 

 of grouse must be coaxed along and never 

 see what is driving them, else they will flit 

 into a tree and be lost; while a cat must be 

 startled out of her wits by a swift rush, and 

 sent flying away before she can make up her 

 stupid mind what the row is all about. A 

 fox, almost as cunning as Wayeeses himself, 

 must be made to think that some dog enemy 

 is slowly puzzling out his cold trail; while 

 a musquash searching for bake-apples, or a 

 beaver going inland to cut wood for his win- 

 ter supplies of bark, must not be driven, but 

 be followed up swiftly by the path or canal 

 by which he has ventured away from the 

 friendly water. 



All these and many more things must be 

 learned slowly at the expense of many fail- 

 ures, especially when the cubs took to hunt- 

 ing alone and the old waives were not there 

 to show them how ; but they never forgot the 



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