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taken, afford him but a fcanty fupply. He there goes regularly to 

 work, follows by the fcent, opens to the view, ftill keeps following, if 

 hopelefs himfelf of overtaking, expecting that fome other wolf will 

 come to his affiftance, and then content to fhare the fpoil. At laft, 

 when his neceffities are very urgent, he boldly faces certain deftruftion ; 

 he attacks women and children, fometimes men ; becomes furious by 

 continual agitation, and ends his life in madnefs. 



The wolf apparently refembles the dog j yet only offers the reverfe of 

 the medal. If his form be like, his nature is different ; he prefcrves the 

 ill qualities of the dog, without any of his good ones. No two animals 

 can have a more perfect: antipathy to each other. A young dog fliud- 

 ders at the fight of a wolf; he even fhuns his fcent, which, though un- 

 known, is fo repugnant to his nature, that he comes trembling to take 

 protediion near his mafter. A dog who is (Ironger, and knows his 

 ftrength, bridles up and teftlfies his animofity, attacks him with cou- 

 rage, and exerts his abilities to rid himfelf of a hateful prefence. They 

 never meet without animofity, fighting for life and death, and without 

 mercy on either fide. If the wolf is the ftronger. He devours his prey : 

 the dog contents himfelf with vidlory, leaving his enemy, when he falls, 

 as food for birds of prey, or for other wolves, fince they devour each 

 other J when one wolf is defperately wounded, the reft track him by his 

 blood, and complete his difafter. 



Dogs, of the dulleft kinds, feck company ; but the wolf is the enemy 

 of all fociety, even among thofe of his kind; their affociation is not; 

 fociety, but a combination for war : their loud bowlings and fiercenefs 

 difcover a proje6t for attacking fome great animal, a ftag or a bull, or 

 fome more redoubtable watch-dog. The inftant their military expe-i- 

 dition is completed, their fociety ends, and each returns in filence to 

 his folitary retreat. There are but flight attachments between the male 

 and female ; they feek each other but once a year, and remain together 

 but a few days ; they couple in winter ; feveral males often follow 

 one female, and this affociation is ftill more bloody than the former; 

 they dilpute moft cruelly, growl, bark, fight, and tear each other ; and 

 fometimes the majority kill that wolf which has been chiefly preferred by 

 the female. 



The time of pregnancy is about three months and a half; young 

 wolves are found from the latter end of April to the beginning of July, 

 The long continuance of the wolf's pregnancy adds a diftindion bc^ 

 $ween it and the dog. They generally bring five gr ftx^ fometimes nii\q 



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