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after men of arms for the carrion of the beasts 

 or dead horses or other things. They howl like 

 hounds and if there be but two they will make 

 such a noise as if there were a route of seven or 

 eight if it is by night, when the weather is clear 

 and bright, or when there are young wolves that 

 have not yet passed their first year. When men 

 lay trains to acharne (with flesh) so as to take 

 them, they will rarely come again to the place 

 where men have put the flesh, especially old 

 wolves, leastways not the first time that they 

 should eat. But if they have eaten two or three 

 times, and they are assured that no one will do 

 them harm, then sometimes they will abide. But 

 some wolves be so malicious that they will eat in 

 the night and in the day they will go a great way 

 thence, two miles or more, especially if they have 

 been aggrieved in that place, or if they feel that 

 men have made any train with flesh for to hunt 

 at them. They do not complain (cry out) when 

 men slay them as hounds do, otherwise they be 

 most like them. When men let run greyhounds 

 at a wolf he turns to look at them, and when he 

 seeth them he knoweth which will take him, and 

 then he hasteneth to go while he can, and if they 

 be greyhounds which dare not take him, the wolf 

 knows at once, and then he will not hasten at his 

 first going. And if men let run at him from the 

 side, or before more greyhounds which will seize 



