be lying flat on his side, his long legs out- 

 stretched on the moss, his eyes closed in the _, 

 sleepy sunshine, his body limp as a hound's M e M"/few 

 after a fox chase; the next instant, like the ****""**£ 

 click and blink of a camera shutter, he 

 would be standing alert on all four feet, 

 questioning the passing breeze or looking 

 intently into your eyes ; and you could not 

 imagine, much less follow, the recoil of twenty 

 big electric muscles that at some subtle 

 warning had snapped him automatically from 

 one position to the other. They were all 

 snow-white, with long thick hair and a heavy 

 mane that added enormously to their im- 

 posing appearance ; and they carried their 

 bushy tails almost straight out as they trotted 

 along, with a slight crook near the body, — 

 the true wolf sign that still reappears in 

 many collies to tell a degenerate race of a 

 noble ancestry. 



After the first deep snows the family sep- 

 arated, led by their growing hunger and by 

 the difficulty of finding enough game in one 

 cover to supply all their needs. The mother 

 and the smallest cub remained together; 



