down from the uplands; and the wolves, 

 leaving instantly the game they were follow- 

 ing, would hasten up to find the two cubs 

 herding a caribou in a cleft of the rocks, — 

 a young caribou that had lost his mother at 

 the hands of the hunters, and that did not 

 know how to take care of himself. And one 

 of the cubs would hold him there, sitting on 

 his tail in front of the caribou to prevent 

 his escape, while the other cub called the 

 wolves away from their own hunting to come 

 and join the feast. 



Whether this were a conscious attempt 

 to spare the game, or to alarm it as little as 

 need be, it is impossible to say. Certainly 

 the wolves know, better apparently than men, 

 that persistent hunting destroys its own ob- 

 ject, and that caribou especially, when much 

 alarmed by dogs or wolves or men, will take 

 the alarm quickly, and the scattered herds, 

 moved by a common impulse of danger, 

 will trail far away to other ranges. That 

 is why the wolf, unlike the less intelligent 

 dog, hunts always in a silent, stealthy, un- 

 obtrusive way; and why he stops hunting 



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