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 brought home more than one sleek-coated dam-builder for the young wolves' dinner. Water-fowl had also been to their liking. Then, when they were old enough, he had brought them forth and trained them in the ways of the wild. He had taught them each scent and explained by dog signs its meaning, which they learned intuitively. He had told them which scent to stalk and which to avoid. He had played with them and seen them grow until in the autumn they had been nearly as large as theirdam. Then he had taken them all away to the west to the great tundra, and there they had hunted caribou. Then when this sport proved tiresome they had headed back to the head waters of the Tanana just in time to meet the southern migrations of the great Alaskan moose. Silversheene had taught his little pack how to cut out the calves from the rest of the herd and how finally to pull them down. They had even killed a two-year-old cow together with her calf. Finally, when the deep snows came, they hunted snowshoe