11. Now for the first time the deer showed ahead of them real signs of nervousness. The solid mass of a hundred or more animals broke up into its small bands again, and each went galloping off on its own course. Group after group began to swerve aside, the wolves making no attempt to prevent them.
12. The wolves were now isoefforts on one band of a dozen does and concentrating their seven fawns. Every attempt that this little low herd made to turn either left or right was promptly foiled. The deer gave up after a while and settled down to outrun their pursuers in the straightaway.
13. They would have done it, too, but as they swept past the clump of willows at the up end of the ridge a perfect flood of wolves seemed to take them in the flank. I saw but George racing toward a doe accompanied by two fawns. Then, just as he reached them. saw him swerve away. He was passed by two pups going like gray bullets. These two went for the nearest of the two fawns, which promptly began dodging. One of the pups, the attempting too sharp a turn, missed his footing and tumbled head over heels, but he was up on the instant and away again.