But he has used all his brains. He has concentrated his efforts to save his life by beating man. He has not only used all his brains, but he has done so all the time. He determined to overcome each new danger as it arose. And he worked hard all the time.
My dear children, that is a great lesson for us. All children, or all men and women, do not have great talents; but everybody can use all the brains he or she has. Some few people prosper in life because they have talents and use them. Other people of talent are lazy, and do not use all their gifts; these people do not prosper. But many people, who have no talent at all, prosper just the same; they do what the American wolf has done.
1. They first decide on something worth doing, just as the wolf decided on saving his life.
2. Then they use all the brains they have to do that thing.
3. They concentrate their efforts on it.
4. They work hard all the time to do that thing.
5. As they meet each difficulty or danger or trap, they devise a method of overcoming that difficulty or danger or trap.
If you learn this much from the American wolf, you will learn the secret of success in the battle of life, when you grow up.
Meanwhile, remember all that I have told you, till I come back and tell you in the next book many more Wonders of the Jungle.
Till then, as they say in the Orient, God and His peace be with you!