CHAPTER XI 
THE WARY WOLF 
NE day in western Wyoming an elk 
was killed by hunters. It was left 
lying on the ground all night. Its 
only protection was a handkerchief tied to one 
of the horns. Tracks in the snow showed that 
wolves were about and that they had circled 
the carcass, but without going close enough 
to touch it. 
In another instance a deer was left out all 
night in the wolf country. 
“How did you protect it?’? someone asked 
the hunter. 
“By simply rubbing my hands over it,’’ he 
answered. 
A mature wolf will not eat or touch anything 
that has human scent upon it, or that carries the 
scent of iron or steel, which he evidently asso- 
ciates with the deadly scent of man. 
A cowboy shot his injured pony and left it 
lying on the plains. The pony was shod. 
Wolves did not touch the carcass. On another 
occasion and in the same locality a pony was 
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