AUDACITY. 455 



" makes the wolf, in the winter season, much bolder 

 than usual, so that he will often, and particularly 

 upon the ice, take away a horse from a sledge; for this 

 reason travellers, at that time of the year, are generally 

 provided with fire-arms. The late Bishop Munck in 

 Christianity would not believe there was any occasion for 

 these; and persuaded a clergyman of his diocese, whose 

 name was M. Kolbiorn (father of the eminent Kolbiorns, 

 so distinguished in the late war by their valour and courage 

 at Frederickshald), that it did not become his function to carry 

 a gun with him when he travelled to church, or on ecclesi- 

 astical affairs. But the bishop got the better of this pre- 

 judice, on being taken over the ice by this very minister, 

 on one of his visitation journeys. They were in expectation 

 of seeing a wolf, which accordingly appeared. The bishop, 

 at sight of him, began to be frightened, and asked M. 

 Kolbiorn if he had not his gun ; and, from this day, he was 

 convinced it was both necessary and becoming." 



Daring as the wolf was in olden times, he has lost nothing 

 in audacity at the present day. 



" In places where cattle have been pastured in security for 

 sixteen years," so we lately read in a Norwegian journal, 

 " droves of wolves, sometimes as many as twelve in number, 

 now prowl about in search of prey. They approach near 

 to inhabited houses, although there may be people about 

 the premises. And that they are not afraid, is evidenced 

 by their remaining perfectly still, even when fired upon. 

 Two wolves recently seized a sheep, and were about to 

 devour it, when two women ran to the rescue, and at- 

 tempted by shouts and casting stones, to drive them away. 

 But the beasts took not the slightest notice of their assaults, 



