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ing good his retreat. When he is wounded by a 

 bullet, he is heard to howl; arid yet, when surrounded 

 liy the peasants, and attacked with clubs, he never 

 howls, but defends himself, in silence, to the last. 



If he happens to be caught in a pit-fall, he is for 

 some time so astonished, that he may be killed with- 

 out offering to resist, or taken alive without much 

 danger. At that instant, one may clap a collar round 

 his neck, muzzle him, and drag him along, without 

 his ever betraying the least symptom of anger or re- 

 sentment. At all other times he has senses in great 

 perfection. He smells a carcase at the distance of 

 more than a league. He also perceives living animals 

 a great way off, and follows them a long time upon 

 the scent. Whenever he leaves the wood, he always 

 takes care to go out against the wind. No sooner 

 does he arrive at its extremity, than he stops to exa- 

 mine, by his smell, on all sides, the emanations that 

 may come either from his enemy or his prey, which 

 he very nicely distinguishes. He prefers those animals 

 which he kills himself to those he finds dead ; and yet 

 he does not disdain these, though ever so much in- 

 fected, when no better is to be had. He is particularly 

 fond of human flesh ; and, perhaps, if he had it in his 

 power, he would eat no other. Wolves have been 

 seen following armies, and arriving in numbers upon 

 the field of battle, where they devoured such dead bo- 

 dies as were left upon the field, or but carelessly buried. 

 These, when once accustomed to human flesh, seek 

 particularly to attack mankind, prefer the shepherd to 

 his flock, and devour women, and carry off' children. 

 These dreadful wolves are called ware-wolves, that is,, 

 wolves of which we ought to be aware. 

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