THE WOLF: 159 
at any time lived unmolested in Scotland. As 
the herdsman’s foe, it was always regarded as a beast 
to be pursued and killed whenever and wherever 
practicable, and from the earliest times the chase 
of the Wolf was considered by kings and nobles 
to be one of the most exciting and enjoyable of field- 
sports. 
We learn from Holinshed that Dorvadil, the fourth 
King of the Scots, “set all his pleasure on hunting 
and keeping of houndes and greyhoundes, ordayning 
that every householder should find him two houndes 
and one greyhounde. Ifa hunter chanced in following 
the game to lose an eye or a limme, so that he were 
not able to helpe himselfe after that time, he made 
a statute that he should be founde of the common 
treasury. He that killed a Wolf should have an oxe 
for his paines. This beast, indeed, the Scottish men 
even from the beginning used to pursue in al they 
might devise, because the same is suche an enemie 
to cattayle, wherein consisted the chiefest portion of 
all their wealth and substance.”* 
Of a later king, Ederus, we are told that his 
“chiefe delighte was altogyther in hunting and 
keeping of houndes and greyhoundes, to chase and 
pursue wild beastes, and namely the Woolfe the 
herdsman’s foe, by means whereof his advancement 
was muche the more acceptable amongst the nobles, 
who in those dayes were whollye given to that kynde 
of pleasure and pastyme.”t 
* Holinshed’s ‘‘ Chronicles of Scotland,” 1577, p. 13. 
+ Holinshed, tom. cit. p. 27 
