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Animal Heroes
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Ernest Thompson Seton
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A
stranger
is
an
enemy,
and
the
old
one
rushing
forth
to
the
defense,
met
the
Cub
again,
and
again
was
restrained
by
something
that
rose
in
her
responsive
to
the
smell.
The
Cub
had
thrown
himself
on
his
back
in
utter
submission,
but
that
did
not
prevent
his
nose
reporting
to
him
the
good
thing
almost
within
reach.
The
She-wolf
went
into
the
den
and
curled
herself
about
her
brood;
the
Cub
persisted
in
following.
She
snarled
as
he
approached
her
own
little
ones,
but
disarming
wrath
each
time
by
submission
and
his
very
cubhood,
he
was
presently
among
her
brood,
helping
himself
to
what
he
wanted
so
greatly,
and
thus
he
adopted
himself
into
her
family.
In
a
few
days
he
was
so
much
one
of
them
that
the
mother
forgot
about
his
being
a
stranger.
Yet
he
was
different
from
them
in
several
ways--older
by
two
weeks,
stronger,
and
marked
on
the
neck
and
shoulders
with
what
afterward
grew
to
be
a
dark
mane.
Little
Duskymane
could
not
have
been
happier
in
his
choice
of
a
foster-mother,
for
the
Yellow
Wolf
was
not
only
a
good
hunter
with
a
fund
of
cunning,
but
she
was
a
Wolf
of
modern
ideas
as
well.
The
old
tricks
of
tolling
a
Prairie
Dog,
relaying
for
Antelope,
houghing
a
Bronco
or
flanking
a
Steer
she
had
learned
partly
from
instinct
and
partly
from
the
example
of
her
more
experienced
relatives,
when
they
joined
to
form
the
winter
bands.
But,
just
as
necessary
nowadays,
she
had
learned
that
all
men
carry
guns,
that
guns
are
irresistible,
that
the
only
way
to
avoid
them
is
by
keeping
out
of
sight
while
the
sun
is
up,
and
yet
that
at
night
they
are
harmless.
She
had
a
fair
comprehension
of
traps,
indeed
she
had
been
in
one
once,
and
though
she
left
a
toe
behind
in
pulling
free,
it
was
a
toe
most
advantageously
disposed
of;
thenceforth,
though
not
comprehending
the
nature
of
the
trap,
she
was
thoroughly
imbued
with
the
horror
of
it,
with
the
idea
indeed
that
iron
is
dangerous,
and
at
any
price
it
should
be
avoided.
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