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almost without eat4ig. He gradually however, recovered, at- 

 tached himself to his keeper, and seemed to have forgotten all 

 his old affection. His master returned after an absence of eigh- 

 teen months. At the very first word which he pronounced, the 

 wolf, who did not see him in the crowd, instantly recognized 

 him, and testified his joy by his antics and his cries. Being set 

 at liberty, he overwhelmed his old friend with caresses, just as 

 the most attached dog would have done after a separation of a 

 few days. Unhappily, his master was obliged to leave him a 

 second time, and this absence was again to the poor wolf the 

 cause of profound regret, but time alelayd his grief. Three 

 years elapsed, and the wolf was living very comfortably with a 

 young dog that had been given him as a companion. After this 

 space of time, sufficient to make any dog forget his master, the 

 gentleman returned again. It was evening, and all was shut 



THE REAL BUFFALO OF J HE KING. 



up, and the eyes of the animal could be of no use to him, but 

 the voice of his beloved master was not yet efi'aced from his 

 memory ; the moment he heard it he knew it, and answered by 

 cries expressive of the most impatient desire, and on the obstacle 

 which separated them being removed, his cries redoubled. The 

 animal rushed forward, placed his fore feet on the shoulders of 

 his friend, licked every part of his face, and threatened with his 

 teeth those very keepers to whom he had so recently testified 

 the warmest afi'ection. 



A French nobleman was some years ago famous for having 

 several tame wolves ; his method of taming being to confine each 

 animal in a kennel by himself until he became docile. The 

 wolves were never struck, but if when, little by little, they had 

 become accustomed to the tamer's presence, they made any at- 



