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lie is unpopular, that he has no friends, and that he 

 is considered a vermin of the first magnitude ? The 

 American wolf, although divided into many families, 

 those we have to do with are the large gray species, 

 and the cayote or prairie variety, the former of 

 whom is a large, ill-looking savage, the latter less 

 repulsive, seldom over twenty-three inches at the 

 shoulder, with more of the dog in his physiognomy, ' 

 and a good deal of the fox in his nature. In all 

 shooting excursions you will have idle days, a lay 

 off for the more serious duties of the morrow, when 

 guns are cleaned, bullets cast, powder flasks re- 

 plenished, and wet or dirty clothes dried or washed. 

 The forenoon having sufficed to perform these labors, 

 a run with a wolf will be found not a bad appetizer 

 for your evening meal, or remover of your little 

 stiffnesses and ailments, in the same way as a little 

 exercise is necessary to the hunter the day after a 

 long or hard run. To enjoy this pleasure to perfec- 

 tion you must be provided with dogs, and there are 

 none so suitable as the strongest stamp of grey- 

 hounds ; more powerful ones that are addicted to 

 grappling with the foe will get fearfully mauled, for 

 the jaws of a wolf are almost as powerful as a 

 hyena's, and consequently your limited establish- 



