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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 The 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 1770. 



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 Ireland 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 son, 

 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. 



