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and goes away the instant his own hunger is 

 satisfied or another wolf kills enough for all. 

 And that is also the probable reason why he 

 lets the deer alone as long as he can find any 

 other game. 



This same intelligent provision was shown 

 in another curious way. When a wolf in 

 his wide ranging found a good hunting- 

 ground where small game. was plentiful, he 

 would snap up a rabbit silently in the twi- 

 light and then go far away, perhaps to join 

 the other cubs in a gambol, or to follow them 

 to the cliffs over a fishing village and set all 

 the dogs to howling. By day he would lie 

 close in some thick cover, miles away from 

 his hunting-ground. At twilight he would 

 steal back and hunt quietly, just long enough 

 to get his game, and then trot away again, 

 leaving the cover as unharried as if there 

 were not a wolf in the whole neighborhood. 



Such a good hunting-ground cannot long 

 remain hidden from other prowlers in the 

 wilderness; and Wayeeses, who was keeping 

 his discovery to himself, would soon cross 

 the trail of a certain old fox returning day 



