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of the spirit which carries the votary of truth above the mountain top , 

 and enables him to get a nearer view of the stars. 



Every man is an enthusiast, whose prophetic eye can see through 

 the mist — who, gifted with a pi'escinct insight into the abstruse pro- 

 blems, obstacles and contingencies of his day, takes off his coat, rolls up 

 his sleeves, and cries, come en! to difficulties in the glorious warfare for 

 human liberty, human progress, material development and scientific 

 investigation. 



NOW FOR THE WOLF. 



Hark to that minstrelsy, ringing and clear ! 

 'Tis the chorus of death on the trail of the deer; 

 The fierce forest bloodhounds are gathering in might, 

 Their echoing yells wake the silence of night, 

 As relentless they stretch over mountain and plain, 

 The blood of their fast speeding victim to drain; 

 They close — he stands proudly one moment at bay — 

 'Tis his last — they are on him, to ravage and slay ! 



The wolf belongs to the genus Lupus, or the canine family. Accord- 

 ing to "Audubon and Bachman's Quadrupeds of North America," the 

 wolf has six incisors in the upper and six in the lower jaw ; one canine 

 tooth in each jaw, and six molars above and six below. 



GENERIC CHARACTER OF THE WOLF. 



The three first teeth in the upper jaw, and the four in the lower 

 jaw are trenchant, but small, and are also called false molars. The 

 great carnivorous tooth above is bicuspid, with a small tubercle on the 

 inner side; that below has the posterior lobe altogether tubercular. 

 There are two tuberculous teeth behind each of the great carnivorous 

 teeth. The muzzle of the wolf is elongate, tongue soft, ears erect, but 

 sometimes pendulous in the domestic varieties. The fore feet are pen- 

 tedactylous, or five toed, the hind feet tetradactylous, or four toed. 

 The teats are both inguinal and ventral. 



The grey wolf of Canada — the typical large wolf of North America 

 — is about five feet six inches in length from the point of the nose to 

 extreme end of the tail; ordinarily twenty -six inches high at the shoulder; 

 larger ones, however, measuring twenty-eight inches and upwards in 





