54 Q^U ADRUPEDS. 



great and only weapon, are formed in the mod ferviceable manner. 

 He cuts with his incifors, or fore- teeth, he holds with his four great 

 canine teeth, and he chews with his grinders j thefe are fourteen in 

 number, and fo placed thar, when the jaws are fhut, there remains a 

 diftance between them, fo that the dog, by opening his mouth ever fo 

 wide, does not lofe the power of his jaws. Tne bitch goes nine weeks 

 with young; lives to about twelve years. Will not eat many, kinds of 

 birds; is voracious, yet can bear hunger long; drinks often, though 

 not abundantly j and it is commonly believed, that when abridged in 

 water, he runs mad ; but perhaps not fo often as has been aflferted. 



THE WOLF. 



THE Dog and the Wolf are very much alike internally, and ex- 

 ternally fome dogs rather refemble the wolf than each other. 



The wolf is about three feet feven inches long, and about two {<i£t 

 five inches high ; which fhews him to be larger than our maftifFs. His 

 colour a mixture of black, brown, and grey, extremely rough and hard, 

 mixed toward the roots with a kind of afh-coloured fur. He appears 

 ftronger than the dog ; and the length of his hair contributes to this 

 cffed. The wolf's eye opens flantingly upwards, in the dire6lion of 

 the nofej whereas, in the dog, it opens more at right angles with the 

 nofe, as in man ; his tail alfo is long and bufhy, and he carries it rather 

 more between his hind legs than the dog. The wolf's eye-balls are 

 fiery green, and add to the fierce and formjdable air of his vifage. 



The wolf's appetite for animal food is mod vehement. Nature has 

 furnifhed him with ibength, cunning, agility, and all requifites for pur- 

 fuing, overt4king, and conquering j yet, with all thefe, the wolf mod; 

 frequently dies of hunger, for he is the declared enemy of man. He is 

 naturally dull and cowardly; but, frc^quently diiappointed, and reduced 

 to famine, ne becomes ingenious from want, and courageous from ne- 

 cefTity. When prelTcd with hunger, he fallies forth over the country, 

 keeps peering round the villages, carries off fiich animals as are not 

 under protrdtion, attacks the (heep- folds, fcratches up and undermines 

 the^threlhoids of doors where they are houfed, and deftroys all before 

 he fixes.on and carries off his prey. When thefe fallies fail, he returns 

 to ifte thickelt part of the foreit to pi^rfue iVn^ller animals, which, when 



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