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a Saxon name still used in Teesdale, England. A certain place 

 there is called "Wolf Lake," although there is not, and never 

 has been, any water near, but my friend, James Backhouse, 

 informs me that it was originally "Wolf lek," that is, the place 

 where the Wolves were supposed to play. (Anglo-Saxon, 

 laeken, to lark or play.) 



sANiTA- In sanitation Wolves have the habits of ordinary dogs. 



They do not bury their dung, but they keep their dens clear of it. 



TION 



HYBRID- The Eskimo or Husky dog is understood to be simply a 



domesticated Wolf, mixed with a strain of some other dog 

 stock. The readiness of the Wolf and the Husky dog to cross 

 is noted by all writers on the subject. Henry, in his famous 

 "Journal on Red River,"-" refers to this as a regular thing and 

 gives a very graphic account of the way in which the female 

 dogs were unwittingly made to play Delilah and betray the 

 he-wolves into the merciless hands of their human enemies. 



A similar account is given by Richardson for the female 

 Wolves about Cumberland House."' 



Two large dogs, supposed to be the offspring of a Wolf 

 and a Husky, lived about Kildonan, Man., and terrorized the 

 district for about a year in the early 8o's. One was gray, 

 one red or liver colour. No one owned them; they lived wild. 

 George Eraser, of Winnipeg, my informant, fired at them 

 several times with a shot-gun, without visible effect. One day 

 he got a close chance at the red one with No. 5 shot; the beast 

 got away, but never was seen again; probably it died. 



AS W. F. White, the taxidermist, of Winnipeg, informed me, 



TRAIN- . ' . . . , 



DOGS not long ago, that he had no difficulty in selling living male 

 Wolves, as they could be utilized to cross with and improve the 

 train-dogs. 



Henry also speaks of saving young Wolf cubs to be used 

 for the trains. -- 



'"Journal, A. Henry, i7(;9-i8i4, pul). 1897, p. 166. 



^' Franklin's First Jounicy, 1823, p. 90. '" Journal, 1897, p. 175. 



