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same identical howl repeated at intervals through 

 the evening, and echoing throughout the forest 

 from every point of the compass, had a weird 

 and supernatural effect." 



Stone and Cram consider the grey wolf which 

 formerly ranged in great packs over every part 

 of the country the same as the wolf of Europe ; 

 and it is practically certain that it is really only 

 a variety of that species. 



" Grey wolves," they state, "were always wan- 

 dering, unsettled beasts, at times, especially in 

 the winter, hunting up and down the country 

 in great packs, and more rarely wandering alone 

 or by twos and threes. Any sort of a country 

 appears to suit them well enough, provided there 

 is game to be had. If anything, they were 

 more numerous in low, black swamps of hemlock 

 and tamarack in the North and the everglades 

 of Florida, than in the dense forests of moun- 

 tainous countries and uplands. But above all 

 else they preferred the wind-blown prairies of 

 the West, where they followed the bison herds 

 in their wandering after new and green pastures. 

 The wolves seldom molested the buffaloes unless 

 they were disabled by disease or sickness. The 

 young calves were what they were after when 



