NATURAL HISTORY. 



exert rather an unexpected talent, viz., retracing a journey 

 during which it had been a close prisoner. 



" The celebrated greyhound, Black-eyed Susan, was brought 

 to Edinburgh from Glasgow in the boot of a coach, on the 

 night of Wednesday, the 13th May, 1835. On the following 



THE GREYHOUND. 



Sunday evening she made her escape, and in forty-eight hours 

 reached her kennel, eight miles beyond Glasgow, being fifty- 

 two miles in all. The road between Glasgow and Edinburgh 

 she had never travelled on foot, and from the time taken she 

 cannot have come direct ; but by what route or process this 

 animal made her point good it is in vain to conjecture." 



THE WOLF. 



Ferocity, craft, and cowardice, are the well-known traits 

 of the WOLF. Although one of the dog tribe, it is held in 

 utter abhorrence by the domesticated dogs. The stronger 

 pursue and destroy it, the weaker fly from it in terror. In 

 the earlier part of English history it is frequently mentioned 

 as a common and dreaded pest. It was finally extirpated in 

 England about 1350, in Scotland about 1600, and was not 

 entirely destroyed in Ireland until the beginning of 1700. 



