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At times, when not near the scrub, they 

 would burrow deep into a great drift of snow 

 and sleep in the warmest kind of a nest, — 

 a trick that the husky dogs, which are but 

 wolves of yesterday, still remember. Like 

 all wild animals, they felt the coming of a 

 storm long before the first white flakes be- 

 gan to whirl in the air; and when a great 

 storm threatened they would lie down to 

 sleep in a cave, or a cranny of the rocks, and 

 let the drifts pile soft and warm over them. 

 However long the storm, they never stirred 

 abroad; partly for their own comfort, partly 

 because all game lies hid at such times and 

 it is practically impossible, even for a wolf, 

 to find it. When a wolf has fed full he can 

 go a week without eating and suffer no great 

 discomfort. So Wayeeses would lie close 

 and warm while the snow piled deep around 

 him and the gale raged over the sea and 

 mountains, but passed unfelt and unheeded 

 &U over his head. Then, when the storm was 

 MsIS over, he pawed his way up through the drift 

 and came out in a new, bright world, 



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