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when at that instant the dog, with a roar, leaped 
across him and laid his mortal enemy upon the earth. 
The boy was roused into double activity by the voice 
of his companion, and drove the spear through the 
Wolf’s neck, as he had been directed ; at which time 
Carragh made his appearance with the head of the 
other.” * 
In an interesting article on the Irish Wolf-dog, 
published in Zhe Irish Penny Journal for 1841 
(p. 354), the writer says:t—“<I am at present 
acquainted with an old gentleman between eighty 
and ninety years of age, whose mother remembered 
Wolves to have been killed in the county of Wexford 
about the years 1730-40, and it is asserted by 
many persons of weight and veracity that a Wolf 
was killed in the Wicklow mountains so recently 
as 1776: 
A few years since, Sir J. Emerson Tennent wrote 
on this subject as follows :— 
“ Waringstown, in the county of Down, on the con- 
fines of the county of Armagh, takes its name from 
the family of Waring, which, in the reign of Queen 
Mary, fled to Iveland from Lancashire to avoid the 
persecution of the Lollards. At the close of the 
seventeenth century the Waring of that day was a 
member of the Irish Parliament ; and his eldest gon, 
Samuel Waring, was born about the year 1699, and. 
* “The Biography of a Tyrone Family ” (Belfast, 1829), p. 74. 
f This article, published under the initials of H. D. R., has since 
been admitted to have been written by H. D. Richardson, author of 
“The Dog: its Origin, Natural History, and Varieties,” in which 
work it has been embodied with additions, 1848. 
