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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, to the poor wolf, the cause 
of the most profound regret. But time allayed his 
grief. Three years elapsed, and the wolf was living 
very comfortably with a young dog which had 
been given to him asa companion. After this space 
of time, which would have been sufficient to make 
any dog, except that of Ulysses, forget his master, 
the gentleman returned again. It was evening, all 
was shut up, and the eyes of the animal could be of 
no use to him; but the voice of his beloved master 
was not effaced from his memory ; the moment he 
heard it, he knew it, and answered by cries indica- 
tive of the most impatient desire; and when the 
obstacle which separated them was removed, his 
cries redoubled. The animal rushed forward, 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 an 
instant before he had been testifying the warmest 
affection. Such an enjoyment, as was to be ex- 
pected, was succeeded by the most cruel pain to the 
poor animal. Separation again was necessary, and 
from that instant the wolf became sad and immov- 
able; he refused all sustenance, pined away, his 
hair bristled up, as is usual with all sick animals, 
and at the end of eight days he was not to be 
known, and there was every reason to apprehend 
his death. His health, however, became re-esta- 
