332 THE FOX. 
A Norwegian gentleman, named Grieff, “ reared up two young Wolves until they were 
full-grown. They were male and female. The latter became so tame that she play ed 
with me, and lic -ked my hands, and I had her often with me in the sledge in winter. Once 
when I was absent she got loose from the chain she was bound w ith, and was away for 
three days. When I returned home I went out on a lull, and called ‘Where is my 
Tussa?’ as she was named, when she immediately came home, and fondled with me like 
the most friendly dog. She could not bear other people, but the male, on the contrary, 
was friendly with others but not with me, from the moment when he once seized a hen, 
and I whipped him with a carrier whip. As they were well treated, they got very large, 
and had fine skins.” 
When Wolves and dogs are domesticated in the same residence, a mutual attachment 
will often spring up between them, although they naturally bear the bitterest hatred to 
each other, A mixed offspring is sometimes the result of this curious friendship, and it is 
said that these half-bred animals are more powerful and courageous than the ordinary dog. 
Ma. Palliser possessed a remarkably fine animal of this kind, the father of which was a 
white Wolf, and the mother an ordinary Indian dog. Its fur was white, like that of its 
Wolf-parent. 
When “Ishmah,” as the dog was named, was first purchased from its Indian owners, 
he was so terrified at the white { face of his new master, that he always ran away whenever 
he saw him, and could not be persuaded to come within two hundred yards. Ishmah was 
then tied up with a cord, but the moment that he was left to himself he held the cord to the 
ground with his paw, severed it in an instant with his sharp teeth, leaped out of the 
window, and dashed off to his former owners. After a while, however, he became 
reconciled to his white master, and proved to be a most faithful and useful ally ; drageing 
a small sledge that contained the heavier necessaries of a hunter's life, and partaking with 
his master all the pleasures and privations of a nomad existence. On account of his 
wolfish ancestry, he was rather apt to run off and play with the young Wolves instead of 
attending to his duty, but was never induced to throw. off his allegiance. On one 
occasion the dog save 1d the life of his master by lying close to him on a “bitterly freezing 
night, and with his long warm fur preserving him from the terrible death by frost. 
In former days the British islands were infested with these sav age brutes, and 
suffered greatly from their depredations, until the issuing of the famous edict which 
ordained that Wolves’ heads should be accepted in the Tieus of taxes, and which speedily 
caused their extinction. In Scotland and Ireland, however, they lingered for a much 
longer time, the last British Wolf being, as it is supposed, killed in Scotland in the 
seventeenth century. 
The Wolf is rather a prolific animal, producing from three to nine young at a litter. 
In January the mother Wolf begins to prepare her habitation for the expected inmates, 
a task in which she is protected, and perhaps assisted, by her mate, who has won her in 
fair fight from his many rivals. He attaches himself solely to one single mate, and never 
leaves her until the young Wolves are able to shift for themselves. The nest in which the 
little family is nurtured is softly and warmly lined with dry moss and with the fur of the 
mother, which she pulls from her own body. March is the usual month for the appearance 
of the little family, and they remain under the maternal protection for seven or eight 
months. They begin if eat meat at four or five weeks of age, and are taught by their 
parents to jom in the chase, 
According to some systematic naturalists the Foxes are placed in the genus Canis, 
together with the dogs and the wolves. Those eminent zoologists, however, who have 
arranged the magnificent collections in the British Museum, have decided upon separating 
the Foxes from the dogs and wolves, and placing them in the genus Vulpes. To this 
decision they have come for several reasons, among which may be noted the shape of the 
pupil of the eye, which in the Foxes is elongated, but in the animals which compose the 
genus Canis is circular, The ears of the Foxes are tri ianeular in shape, and pointed, and 
the tail j is always exceedingly bushy. 
A very powerful scent is poured forth from the Fox in consequence of some glands 
