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upon the largest seal as the herd floundered 

 ponderously back to safety. A wolf rarely 

 grips and holds an enemy ; he snaps and lets 

 go, and snaps again at every swift chance; 

 but here he must either hold fast or lose his 

 big game ; and what between holding and 

 letting go, as the seals whirled with bared 

 teeth and snapped viciously in turn, as they 

 scrambled away to the sea, the wolves had a 

 lively time of it. Often indeed, spite of three 

 or four wolves, a big seal would tumble into 

 the tide, where the sharks followed his bloody 

 trail and soon finished him. 



Now for the first time the wolves, led by 

 the rich abundance, began to kill more than 

 they needed for food and to hide it away, 

 like the squirrels, in anticipation of the com- 

 ing winter. Like the blue and the Arctic 



foxes, 



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seems to stir dimly at times within them. 

 o^j Occasionally, instead of eating and sleeping 

 after a kill, the cubs, led by the mother wolf, 



would hunt half of the 



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