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Animal Heroes
·
Ernest Thompson Seton
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The
old
Wolf
crouched
a
little
but
sniffed
hard
with
swinging
nose;
the
young
Wolf
imitatively
did
the
same.
She
backed
off
to
a
greater
distance;
the
Cub
stood.
She
gave
a
low
whine;
he
followed
unwillingly.
She
circled
around
the
tempting
carcass;
a
new
smell
was
recorded--Coyote
trail-scent,
soon
followed
by
Coyote
body-scent.
Yes,
there
they
were
sneaking
along
a
near
ridge,
and
now
as
she
passed
to
one
side
the
samples
changed,
the
wind
had
lost
nearly
every
trace
of
Calf;
miscellaneous,
commonplace,
and
uninteresting
smells
were
there
instead.
The
human
track-scent
was
as
before,
the
trace
of
leather
was
gone,
but
fully
one-half
per
cent,
of
iron-odor,
and
body
smell
of
man
raised
to
nearly
two
per
cent.
Fully
alarmed,
she
conveyed
her
fear
to
the
Cub,
by
her
rigid
pose,
her
air
intent,
and
her
slightly
bristling
mane.
She
continued
her
round.
At
one
time
on
a
high
place
the
human
body
scent
was
doubly
strong,
then
as
she
dropped
it
faded.
Then
the
wind
brought
the
full
calf-odor
with
several
track-scents
of
Coyotes
and
sundry
Birds.
Her
suspicions
were
lulling
as
in
a
smalling
circle
she
neared
the
tempting
feast
from
the
windward
side.
She
had
even
advanced
straight
toward
it
for
a
few
steps
when
the
sweaty
leather
sang
loud
and
strong
again,
and
smoke
and
iron
mingled
like
two
strands
of
a
parti-colored
yarn.
Centring
all
her
attention
on
this,
she
advanced
within
two
leaps
of
the
Calf.
There
on
the
ground
was
a
scrap
of
leather,
telling
also
of
a
human
touch,
close
at
hand
the
Calf,
and
now
the
iron
and
smoke
on
the
full
vast
smell
of
Calf
were
like
a
snake
trail
across
the
trail
of
a
whole
Beef
herd.
It
was
so
slight
that
the
Cub,
with
the
appetite
and
impatience
of
youth,
pressed
up
against
his
mother's
shoulder
to
go
past
and
eat
without
delay.
She
seized
him
by
the
neck
and
flung
him
back.
A
stone
struck
by
his
feet
rolled
forward
and
stopped
with
a
peculiar
clink.
The
danger
smell
was
greatly
increased
at
this,
and
the
Yellow
Wolf
backed
slowly
from
the
feast,
the
Cub
unwillingly
following.
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