Natural Telepathy 



region, some eight or ten straight miles away, and 

 perhaps twice that distance as wolves commonly 

 travel. 



If you contend that this wounded wolf must 

 have known where the meat was by the howling 

 of the pack when they killed, I grant that may be 

 true in one case, but certainly not in the other. 

 For by great good luck I was near the pack, follow- 

 ing a fresh trail in the gray, breathless dawn, when 

 the wolves killed the second deer; and there was 

 not a sound for mortal ears to hear, not a howl or 

 a trail cry or even a growl of any kind. They fol- 

 lowed, killed and ate in silence, as wolves com- 

 monly do, their howling being a thing apart from 

 their hunting. The wounded wolf was then far 

 away, with miles of densely wooded hills and val- 

 leys between him and his pack. 



Do you ask, "How was it possible to know all 

 this?" From the story the snow told. At day- 

 break I had found the trail of a hunting pack, and 

 was following it stealthily, with many a cautious 

 detour and look ahead, for they are unbelievably 

 shy brutes; and so it happened that I came upon 

 the carcass of the deer only a few minutes after 

 the wolves had fed and roamed lazily off toward 

 their day-bed. I followed them too eagerly, and 

 alarmed them before I could pick the big one I 

 wanted; whereupon they took to rough country, 



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