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town itself, in the vicinity of which they recently displayed 

 extraordinary audacity. It happened thus: Two ladies, 

 who resided there, were taking an airing in a sledge ; hut 

 they had only proceeded a short distance from the town, 

 when six wolves stationed themselves before the horse, and 

 would not get out of the way, although the coachman used 

 his hest endeavours to force the animal forward. Very 

 fortunately there was a dog with the party, which more 

 especially attracted the attention of the beasts, and which 

 they quickly seized and tore to pieces ; and thus the ladies 

 got off with a terrible fright only." 



The wolf, as known, is a great enemy to dogs ; and in 

 some parts of Scandinavia it is next to impossible to keep 

 those animals. Even in the vicinity of Ronnum, dogs were 

 often picked up by them. 



On one occasion, when proceeding, in the winter time, on 

 a visit to my immediate neighbour, M. Bagge, at Ny-Gard, 

 and on a slight eminence, within a couple of hundred paces 

 of the house, I perceived a black, shaggy mass lying on the 

 snow, with much blood about it. Leaving the sledge, to see 

 what it might be, I found, to my regret, that it was the head 

 of my friend's favourite yard-dog, which, as it appeared, the 

 wolves had destroyed whilst chained to his kennel, I believe 

 during the preceding night, but of which they had not left 

 another morsel. 



As a matter of curiosity, I cast the severed head, 

 then hard frozen, into my vehicle, and carried it home ; 

 where, to my surprise, and in direct opposition to what M. 

 Nilsson and others tell us, as to dogs never eating their 

 fellows, my dogs feasted upon it as if the greatest of 

 delicacies. 



