Megaleep the Wanderer. 25 



There are other questions, which one can only ask 

 without answering. Is this silent gathering merely 

 a tribute to the old law of the herd, or does Mega- 

 leep, with his last strength, still think to cheat his old 

 enemy, and go away where the wolf that followed him 

 all his life shall not find him ? How was his resting 

 place first selected, and what leaders searched out the 

 ground ? What sound or sign, what murmur of wind 

 in the pines, or lap of ripples on the shore, or song of 

 the veery at twilight made them pause and say, Here 

 is the place? How does he know, he whose thoughts 

 are all of life, and who never looked on death, where 

 the great silent herd is that no caribou ever sees but 

 once ? And what strange instinct guides Megaleep 

 to the spot where all his wanderings end at last? 



