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it waits till the animal is asleep. The injuries which it inflicts are usually 
mortal. To bite off the tail of the ox seems to be its delight. The hyena 
dog is smaller and slenderer than the hyena, or the wolf. In color it is of 
a reddish or yellowish brown, variously mottled, along the sides of the body, 
and on the legs, in large patches of intermingled black and white. From 
its completely black nose and muzzle, a strong black line passes up the 
centre of the forehead to between the ears, which are very large, black on 
both surfaces, and furnished with a broad and expanded tuft of long, whitish 
hairs, filling a considerable part of their concavity. Its tail, of moderate 
length, is covered with long bushy hair, divided in the middle by a ring 
of black. Its ferocity seems to be untamable. Mr Burchell, who first 
carried it to England, kept one for twelve months, at the end of which 
veriod even its feeder did not dare to lay his hand upon it. 

THE WOLF.! 



WELL 46 2 AOR™ 
‘Tne wolf, as well externally as internally, so nearly resembles the dog, 
that he seems modelled upon the same plan; and yet he only offers the 
reverse of the image. If his form be similar, his nature is different; ana 
indeed they are so unlike in their dispositions, that no two animals can 
have a more perfect antipathy to each other. A young dog shudders at the 
sight of a wolf; a dog who is stronger, and who knows his strength, bristles 
up at the sight, testifies his animosity, attacks him with courage, endeavors 
to put him to flight, and does all in his power to rid himself of a presence 
that is hateful to him. They never meet without either flying from, or 
fighting with each other. Ifthe wolt is the stronger, he tears and devours 
his prey ; the dog, on the contrary, is more generous, and contents himself 
with his victory. 
The dog, even in his savage state, is not cruel ; he is easily tamed, and 
continues firmly attached to his master. The wolf, when taken young, 
becomes tame, but never has an attachment. Nature is stronger in him 
than education ; he resumes, with age, his natural dispositions, and returns, 
2s soon as he can, to the woods whence he was taken. Cuvier, however. 
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1 Canis lupus, Lin. 
