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principle taught in that first rabbit drive, — that two 
hunters are better than one to outwit any game when 
they hunt intelligently together. That is why you so 
often find wolves going in pairs; and when you study 
them or follow their tracks you discover that they play 
continually into each other’s hands. They seem to share 
the spoil as intelligently as they catch it, the wolf that 
lies beside the runway and pulls down the game giving 
up a portion gladly to the companion that beats the 
bush, and rarely indeed is there any trace of quarreling 
between them. 
Like the eagles — which have long since learned the 
advantage of hunting in pairs and of scouting for game 
in single file — the wolves, when hunting deer on the 
open barrens where it is difficult to conceal their 
advance, always travel in files, one following close 
behind the other; so that, seen from in front where 
the game is watching, two or three wolves will appear 
like a lone animal trotting across the plain. That alarms 
the game far less at first; and not until the deer starts 
away does the second wolf appear, shooting out from 
behind the leader. The sight of another wolf appearing 
suddenly on his flank throws a young deer into a panic, 
in which he is apt to lose his head and be caught by the 
cunning hunters. 
Curiously enough, the plains Indians, who travel in the 
same way when hunting or scouting for enemies, first 
