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closely thai when the sledge-horses reached the 

 post-house and rushed into the >i;il >U-. tin- doors 

 Hi which were open, seven of the wolves rushed 

 in after them. The driver and traveler leaped 

 from the sledge just as it reached the building, 

 and horses and wolves rushed past them into 

 it. The men then ran up and closed the doors 

 Having obtained guns, they opened the roof, 

 expecting to see that the horses had been killed. 

 Instead all seven wolves were slinking about be- 

 side the terrified horses. All were killed with- 

 out resistance. 



In Siberia and Russia the wolves in wintei 

 are literally starving. Gathering in packs, the) haunt the roads, and chase the sledges with their 

 unfaltering gallop. Seldom in these days doe- a human life fall victim; but in very hard 

 winters sledge-horses are often killed, and now and then a peasant. Rabies is very common 

 among wolves. They then enter the villages, biting and snapping at every one. Numbers of 

 patients are sent yearly from Russia and Hungary to the Pasteur Institutes, after being bitten by 

 rabid wolves. In Livonia, in 1823, it was stated that the following animals had been killed by 

 wolves: 15,182 sheep, 1,807 oxen. 1,841. horses, 3,-70 goats, 4,190 pigs. 703 dogs, and numbers 

 of geese and fowls. They followed the Grand Army from Russia to Germany in 1812, and 

 restocked the forests of Europe with particularly savage wolves. It is said that in the retreat 



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"THE WOLF WITH PRIVY PAW" 



The photograph shoivs admirably the slinking gate and long stride oj th" tuolj 



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