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A MAN-EATING WOLF. 



AN Engineer in the Public Works Department, 

 India, who has had much experience of India 

 lately told me that he thought none of the wild 

 beasts of that country were equal to the wolf 

 in savage ferocity, wanton destructiveness and 

 wild daring. He has spent much of his life in 

 the North-West Provinces and Oude, where wolves 

 are very plentiful, and he has often had occasion 

 to remember that there are other animals in India 

 as dangerous as the man-eating tiger and even 

 more destructive to human life. 



On one occasion, while engaged on some bridge- 

 work at Sheegottee, near Gya on the Grand 

 Trunk Road, the native watchmen set to guard 

 a brick-field were so frequently carried off by 

 a pair of wolves that at last no one would remain 

 after dark anywhere near the brick-kilns. One 

 incident that my friend related well exemplifies the 

 daring of these brutes. A watchman's hut had 

 been erected near the brick-fields, and two men 

 were appointed as care-takers. One moonlight 

 night they were sleeping in the verandah of the 

 hut, and, as natives of India generally do, they 

 slept with their cloths drawn over their heads. 



