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considerable distance the venom sometimes remains em- 

 bedded in them for a long while afterwards. 



We read, for instance, that : " At the hamlet of Talle and 

 parish of Hardemo, in the province of Orebro, a carcase had 

 been so strongly impregnated with poison, that the wild beasts 

 shunned it altogether. In the spring it was buried, but some 

 bones belonging to it having been overlooked, were cast upon 

 the roof of a neighbouring house, where they remained ex- 

 posed to the rays of the sun the whole of the summer. The 

 following winter there was a great fall of snow, and a drift 

 of such height was formed near to the side of the building, 

 that a hungry fox arriving there one cold night, easily 

 mounted on the roof, and digging up the bones, com- 

 menced gnawing them ; but the poison affected him 

 so powerfully, that the following morning he was found 

 lying dead on the spot where he had been eating. From 

 the appearance of the snow, it did not seem as if he had 

 rolled about or suffered in any manner ; but, on the 

 contrary, he still retained the half-eaten bones between his 

 fore paws." 



Independently of the innumerable devices of man to 

 cause his destruction, the wolf is sometimes his own 

 executioner. 



" Two years ago," says Lieutenant C. G. Jack, " a wolf in 

 the parish of Western Fernebo made captive of himself in a 

 very singular manner. He was found hanging between 

 the stems of two fir-trees growing out of one and the same 

 root, but which, separating at some feet from the ground, 

 formed a Klyka, or fork. The probability is, that whilst 

 pursuing a cat, a martin, or a squirrel that had taken refuge 



