d round, then fled in alarm to
the main body. Then, as caribou usually do, the whole band began
leaping three or four feet into the air--much as they sometimes do when
hit by a bullet. Then, too, with tails up they swept away at full
gallop and, entering the forest beyond, were lost to view.

"It was a great disappointment, my son, and I became so disheartened
that I made but a poor attempt to trail them that day. That evening,
when I lay down to rest upon the edge of a muskeg, the moon was already
shining; and by midnight the cold was so intense that the frost-bitten
trees went off with such bangs that I was startled out of my slumber.
It was then that I discovered a pack of eight wolves silently romping
about in the snow of the muskeg--just like a lot of young dogs. Their
antics interested me and it was some time before I fell asleep again.

"In the morning, though a heavy rime (frozen mist) was falling and
though it was so thick that it obliterated the surrounding forest, I
set out again in search of game tracks, and having crossed the muskeg,
not only found the tracks of many caribou, but learned, too, that the
eight wolves were now trailing the deer in earnest.

"About half way between sunrise and midday I came upon a lake, and
there I discovered not only the same herd of caribou and the same
wolves, but the deer were running at full speed with the wolves in full
chase behind them. My son, it was a fascinating sight. The caribou
were going at full gallop, covering twenty feet or more at a bound, and
all running at exactly the same speed, none trying to outstrip the
others, for the fawns, does, and bucks were all compactly bunched
together. It was as exciting and as interesting a sight as one may see
in the Strong Woods. Though the wolves did not seem to be putting
forth their utmost speed, they nevertheless took care to cut every
corner, and thus they managed to keep close behind, while their long,
regular lope foretold their eventually overhauling their quarry.

"Protected by a gentle southwest wind and a thick screen of underbrush,
I watched the chase. Three times the deer circled the lake, which was
about half a mile in length. For safety's sake the caribou carefully
avoided entering the woods, even rounding every point rather than cut
across among the trees. On the fourth round I saw that the wolves had
set their minds upon running down a single deer, for as they now
suddenly burst forward at thei