CHAPTER II. 



THE GLUTTON NOTION OF THE ANCIENTS DESCEIPTION PISCATORY 

 PURSUITS CONCEALS HIS FOOD READILY TAMED THE STEEL-TRAP 

 THE JERF-BAS THE JERF-FALLA ANOTHER KIND. 



THE Glutton, or Wolverine (Jerf; Filfrass, Sw. ; Gulo 

 borealis, Retz.), though not found in my vicinity or, 

 indeed, in the more southern parts of Sweden, where it 

 has probably been exterminated is common over all the 

 more northern portions of Scandinavia. Swedish natu- 

 ralists tell us that the fjall regions are the proper home 

 of the glutton, but to my personal knowledge they are 

 also pretty common in the Wermeland and Dalecar- 

 lian forests. 



Many fables used to be related of this animal. Pontop- 

 pidan informs us for instance : " It is a wild notion that the 

 people here in general have conceived : which is, that the 

 glutton is a bear's third cub, though she brings but seldom 

 forth more than two at a time. If this creature finds a 



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