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noble art, to which he applied with incessant labour 
and amazing success.” Hunting the Wolf, the Wild 
Boar, the Fox, and the Deer, were the favourite 
pastimes of the nobility of that day, and the Dogs 
which they employed for these various branches of the 
sport, were held by them in the highest estimation. 
Suchravages did the Wolves commit during winter, 
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TEETH OF WOLF. NATURAL SIZE, 
particularly in January when the cold was severest, 
that the Saxons distinguished that month by the 
name of ‘‘ Wolf month.” 
“The month which we now call January,” says 
Verstegan, “they called ‘Wolf monat,’ to wit, ‘Wolf 
moneth,’ because people are wont always in that 
month to be in more danger to be devoured of Wolves 
than in any season else of the year; for that, through 
the extremity of cold and snow, these ravenous 
