hey flitted away. When he thought
it was time for him to move he began, Indian-like, to advance to his
assigned position, imitating as far as possible the movements he had
witnessed in the Indians. To his great satisfaction, he reached the
designated spot without any trouble.

Carefully looking over the rocks and through some underbrush, he was
able to see, through a pocket telescope which he fortunately had with
him, the busy wolverine still at work. Very interesting it was to watch
him, even if it meant the destruction of all the meat. The wolverine is
about as large as a first-class retriever dog. His legs, though short,
are exceedingly muscular, and he has quite a bushy tail. These animals
are very powerful, and in breaking into an Indian's "cache" can remove
logs and stones much larger and heavier than one man can lift. They are
very destructive when they find a "cache" of this description. They not
only have an enormous capacity for devouring the meat cached by the
Indians, but they will carry away, and cunningly hide, large quantities.
Over the whole they emit an odour so pungent and so disagreeable, that
neither hungry Indians nor starving dogs will touch it. The Indians
simply detest the wolverine on account of its thievish propensities and
its great cunning. There is always great rejoicing when one is killed.
As Alec, through his telescope, watched the mischievous, busy animal he
became very much interested in his movements. He was amazed at the
strength which enabled him to dig out from the ground a hindquarter of
the bear and easily carry it away to another place, where he cunningly
hid it. His next effort, which much amused Alec, was to take the bear's
skin in his mouth and attempt to climb up into a tree that he might hide
it among the branches. It was laughable to see the skin slipping under
his feet, and thus causing him to lose his grip, so that, with it, he
fell heavily to the ground. Failure, however, was not in his
vocabulary. Again and again he seized the robe in his mouth, and
endeavoured to carry the awkward thing up that tree. But, alas for him,
his very determination proved his destruction. So absorbed had he
become in his efforts to succeed that he was, for once in his life,
caught off his guard. The three Indians had succeeded in getting behind
him, and had thus cut off his retreat into the forest. The first
consciousness he had of his enemies was when three simultaneous shou