CASSEI/IYS POPTTLAR NATURAL HISTORY. 



inclosed within the cordon, it was thought :i 'great many would have been killed. On the 

 people, however, reaching the extreme point of the peninsula, to their great mortification, not one \va ; 

 to be seen ; and, in consequence, the skull dispersed. Some time afterwards the mystery was explained. 

 A drove of about thirty wolves was seen crossing from a small island situated in the Wenern, where, 

 it appeared, they had sheltered themselves when driven from the mainland. 



Allusion has already been made* to the hunting scenes in the times of Louis < t >natorx.e, and to 

 "the pictures of them, full of life, from the easel of 1 >esportes. His " \Volf Hunt," which we have 

 engraved (page 7:>), is one well worthy of his fame. Nothing can be more spirited than are the 

 details of this picture of an attack and defence. 



Mr. Greiff reared two young wolves until they were full grown. They were male and female. 

 The latter became so tamo, that she played with him, licked his hands, and he often took her with him 

 in his sledge in the winter. Once, during his absence, she got loose from the chain she was bound 

 with, and was away three days. On his return home, he went out on a hill and called, " Where is my 

 Tussaf She immediately responded to the name she had received, and fondled with him like the 

 most friendly dog. She could not bear other people ; but the male was friendly with others, though 

 not with his master, from the moment he pounced upon a hen, and was punished with a courier whip. 

 As they were well treated, they became very large, and had fine skins. 



A wolf, brought up in Paris like a dog, became familiar with every person he was in the habit ot 

 seeing. He would follow his master, seemed to suffer from his absence, evinced entire submission, and 

 did not differ in manners from the tamest domestic dog. As his master was obliged to travel, the 

 wolf was ] iresented to the Royal Menagerie of Paris. Here, shut up in his compartment, he remained 

 for many weeks, without exhibiting the least gaiety, and almost without eating. He gradually, how- 

 ever, recovered, attached himself to his keeper, and seemed to have forgotten all his past affections. 



But, after an absence of eighteen months, his master returned, and, at the very first word 

 he pronounced, the wolf, who did not see him in the crowd, instantly recognised him, and testified his 

 joy by his motions 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 quit him a second time ; and this absence was again the cause of profound regret 

 to the wolf. But time allayed his grief : a young dog was given him for a companion, and three years 

 were passed by the wolf very comfortably. 



Again his former master returned : it was evening ; all was shut up ; but no sooner was the well- 

 known voice heard, than the cries of the wolf were indicative of the most impatient longing for him. 

 The instant the obstacle that separated them was removed, the wolf rushed forward with redoubled 

 cries, placed his fore feet on the shoulders of -his friend, licked every part of his face, and threatened 

 with his teeth his very keepers, who approached, and to whom he had been testifying just before the 

 warmest affection. 



Once more separation was necessary, but from that instant the wolf became sad and immovable. 

 He refused all sustenance, and pined away; his hair bristled up as is usual with all sick animals ami 

 at the end of eight days he could scarcely be recognised, and there was reason to apprehend his death. 

 His health, however, became re-established he resumed his good condition of body, and his brilliant 

 coat ; his keepers could again approach him, but he would not endure the caresses of any other persons, 

 and he only answered strangers by menaces. 



No difference has been detected in the voice and howlings of wolves in either hemisphere, but in 

 fur they vary according to climate, or the difference of species and race. No true wolf lias a white tip 

 to the tail, excepting where the rigour of the climate clothes the animal in a grisly white fur and 

 even then, dark hairs are commonly observable at the tip of the brush; the under fur of all is ashy. 



The French wolves, it may be observed, are generally browner, and somewhat smaller, than those 

 of Germany ; the Russian race is larger, and appears more bulky and formidable from the quantity of 

 long, coarse hair on the cheeks, gullet, and neck ; their eyes are very small, and their whole aspect pecu- 

 liarly savage and sinister. The Swedish and Norwegian wolves are similar to the Russian in form, but 

 appear heavier and deeper in the shoulders ; they are lighter in colour than the Russian race, and 



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