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Animal Heroes
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Ernest Thompson Seton
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Duskymane
heard
the
"crack"
as
he
scurried
off
into
cover.
He
could
scarcely
know
what
it
meant,
but
he
never
saw
his
kind
old
foster-mother
again.
Thenceforth
he
must
face
the
world
alone.
VII
THE
YOUNG
WOLF
WINS
A
PLACE
AND
FAME
Instinct
is
no
doubt
a
Wolf's
first
and
best
guide,
but
gifted
parents
are
a
great
start
in
life.
The
dusky-maned
cub
had
had
a
mother
of
rare
excellence
and
he
reaped
the
advantage
of
all
her
cleverness.
He
had
inherited
an
exquisite
nose
and
had
absolute
confidence
in
its
admonitions.
Mankind
has
difficulty
in
recognizing
the
power
of
nostrils.
A
Gray-wolf
can
glance
over
the
morning
wind
as
a
man
does
over
his
newspaper,
and
get
all
the
latest
news.
He
can
swing
over
the
ground
and
have
the
minutest
information
of
every
living
creature
that
has
walked
there
within
many
hours.
His
nose
even
tells
which
way
it
ran,
and
in
a
word
renders
a
statement
of
every
animal
that
recently
crossed
his
trail,
whence
it
came,
and
whither
it
went.
That
power
had
Duskymane
in
the
highest
degree;
his
broad,
moist
nose
was
evidence
of
it
to
all
who
are
judges
of
such
things.
Added
to
this,
his
frame
was
of
unusual
power
and
endurance,
and
last,
he
had
early
learned
a
deep
distrust
of
everything
strange,
and,
call
it
what
we
will,
shyness,
wariness
or
suspicion,
it
was
worth
more
to
him
than
all
his
cleverness.
It
was
this
as
much
as
his
physical
powers
that
made
a
success
of
his
life.
Might
is
right
in
wolf-land,
and
Duskymane
and
his
mother
had
been
driven
out
of
Sentinel
Butte.
But
it
was
a
very
delectable
land
and
he
kept
drifting
back
to
his
native
mountain.
One
or
two
big
Wolves
there
resented
his
coming.
They
drove
him
off
several
times,
yet
each
time
he
returned
he
was
better
able
to
face
them;
and
before
he
was
eighteen
months
old
he
had
defeated
all
rivals
and
established
himself
again
on
his
native
ground;
where
he
lived
like
a
robber
baron,
levying
tribute
on
the
rich
lands
about
him
and
finding
safety
in
the
rocky
fastness.
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