Natural Telepathy 



then challenged my woodcraft is this: in the 

 winter-time, when timber-wolves commonly run 

 in small packs, a solitary or separated wolf always 

 seems to know where his mates are hunting or 

 idly roving or resting in their day-bed. The pack 

 is made up of his family relatives, younger or older, 

 all mothered by the same she-wolf; and by some 

 bond or attraction or silent communication he can 

 go straight to them at any hour of the day or night, 

 though he may not have seen them for a week, 

 and they have wandered over countless miles of 

 wilderness in the interim. 



We may explain this fact, if such it be (I shall 

 make it clear presently), on the simple ground 

 that the wolves, though incurable rovers, have 

 bounds beyond which they seldom pass; that they 

 return on their course with more or less regularity; 

 and that in traveling, as distinct from hunting, 

 they always follow definite runways, like the 

 foxes. Because of these fixed habits, a solitary 

 wolf might remember that the pack was due in a 

 certain region on a certain day, and by going to 

 that region and putting his nose to the runways he 

 could quickly pick up the fresh trail of his fellows. 

 There is nothing occult in such a process; it is a 

 plain matter of brain and nose. 



Such an explanation sounds reasonable enough; 

 too reasonable, in fact, since a brute probably 



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