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startled, foolish deer as surely, as intelli- 

 gently, as a pair of collies herd a flock of 

 frightened sheep. 



When the cubs broke out of the dense 

 cover at last they found the two old wolves 

 sitting quietly on their tails before a rugged 

 wall of rocks that stretched away on either 

 hand at the base of a great bare hill. In 

 front of them was a young cow caribou, 

 threatening savagely with horns and hoofs, 

 while behind her cowered two half-grown 

 fawns crowded into a crevice of the rocks. 

 Anger, rather than fear, blazed out in the 

 mother's mild eyes. Now she turned swiftly 

 to press her excited young ones back against 

 the sheltering wall ; now she whirled with a 

 savage grunt and charged headlong at the 

 wolves, which merely leaped aside and sat 

 down silently again to watch the game, till 

 the cubs raced out and hovered uneasily 

 about with a thousand questions in every eye JJj 

 and ear and twitching nostril. 



The reason for the hunt i 

 was now plain 



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