content: ' i positively must get a good meal before i go back to my den , ' he said to himself ; ' it is nearly a week since i have tasted anything but scraps , though perhaps no one would think it to look at my figure ! of course there are plenty of rabbits and hares in the mountains ; but indeed one needs to be a greyhound to catch them , and i am not so young as i was ! if i could only dine off that fox i saw a fortnight ago , curled up into a delicious hairy ball , i should ask nothing better ; i would have eaten her then , but unluckily her husband was lying beside her , and one knows that foxes , great and small , run like the wind . really it seems as if there was not a living creature left for me to prey upon but a wolf , and , as the proverb says : ' one wolf does not bite another . ' however , let us see what this village can produce . i am as hungry as a schoolmaster . ' now , while these thoughts were running through the mind of the wolf , the very fox he had been thinking of was galloping along the other road .
answer: he was not so young as he was .
question: why was the great wolf not able to catch plenty of rabbits and hares in the mountains ?
target: why was the great wolf not able to catch plenty of rabbits and hares in the mountains ?
references: why was the great wolf not able to catch plenty of rabbits and hares in the mountains ?