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just as the most attached dog would have done 

 after a separation of a few days. Unhappily his 

 master was obb'ged to quit him a second time ; and 

 this absence was again, to the poor wolf, the cause 

 of the most profound regret. But time allayed his 

 grief. Three years elapsed, and the wolf was living 

 very comfortably with a young dog which had 

 been given to him as a companion. After this space 

 of time, which would have been sufficient to make 

 any dog, except that of Ulysses, forget his master, 

 the gentleman returned again. It was evening, all 

 was shut up, and the eyes of the animal could be of 

 no use to him ; but the voice of his beloved master 

 was not effaced from his memory ; the moment he 

 heard it, he knew it, and answered by cries indica- 

 tive of the most impatient desire; and when the 

 obstacle which separated them was removed, his 

 cries redoubled. The animal rushed forward, placed 

 his fore-feet on the shoulders of his friend, licked 

 every part of his face, and threatened with his teeth 

 his very keepers who approached, and to whom an 

 instant before he had been testifying the warmest 

 affection. Such an enjoyment, as was to be ex- 

 pected, was succeeded by the most cruel pain to the 

 poor animal. Separation again was necessary, and 

 from that instant the wolf became sad and immov- 

 able; he refused all sustenance, pined away, his 

 hair bristled up, as is usual with all sick animals, 

 and at the end of eight days he was not to be 

 known, and there was every reason to apprehend 

 his death. His health, however, became re-esta- 



