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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. 

 Such ravages did the Wolves commit during winter, 



TKETII 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 



