204 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
could be used only by the wealthy in such an extravagant way as 
scent: hence only 
«The courtier’s hands are perfumed with civet.” 
As You Like It. Act iii., Scene 2. 
In All’s Well that Ends Well, Act v., Scene 2, the Civet is 
called a “ musk-cat.” 
Tue Wotr, Canis lupus. 
There are few animals that have got a worse name, and perhaps 
deservedly so, than the Wolf. Individually it is one of the most 
cowardly of animals, but collectively it proves one of the most 
dangerous among wild animals; in fact, I believe a hunter would 
run a greater risk of “getting the worst of it” from a pack of 
hungry wolves—and wolves are always hungry—than from a troop 
of lions. The latter may be easily avoided unless the hunter 
courts a fight; but not so with the wolves. Keen-sighted and 
remarkably fleet of foot, they at once commence the attack, not 
always openly, but generally so. In Newfoundland I have known 
them display considerable strategy in the capture of the Cariboo 
(Rangifer caribou). In autumn, when the hills are covered with 
snow, the deer come down to feed in the marshes, many of which, 
although of considerable extent, are surrounded by belts of 
conifers, chiefly the black spruce (Adies nigra), through which 
the deer have well-known and well-trodden paths. In the leeward 
paths some of the wolves hide themselves, while others run round 
to windward of the deer, which is generally sufficient to start a 
whole herd to leeward at full speed, and consequently right into 
the jaws of the secreted wolves. The settlers affirm that the 
wolves generally adopt this easy manner of hunting the Cariboo 
just after the bucks have shed their horns. On one occasion 
I measured the “strides” of a couple of wolves that had passed 
close by the door of my house during the night in chase of a 
Cariboo stag, and found them to be from sixteen to eighteen feet! 
Imagine clearing the locks of a canal, barge, bargemen and all at 
every stride, and going at racing speed. 
Well does Shakspeare bring out the true character of the wolf 
when he makes Antonio say :— 
“TJ pray you, think you question with the Jew: 
You may as well go stand upon the beach, 
