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sufficient to make any Dog, except that of Ulysses, forget 

 his master, the gentleman again returned. 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 ; he answered, by cries, indicative of the most impatient 

 desire; and when the obstacle, which separated them, was 

 removed, his cries redoubled. The animal rushed for- 

 ward, placed his two 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 expected, was succeeded by the 

 most cruel pain to the poor animal. Separation again 

 was necessary, and from that instant the Wolf became 

 sad and immoveable ; he refused all sustenance ; pined 

 away ; his hairs bristled up, as is usual with all sick ani- 

 mals ; 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-established, he resumed his 

 good condition of body, and brilliant coat; his keepers 

 could again approach him, but he would not endure the 

 caresses of any other person; and he answered strangers 

 by nothing but menaces. 



Such is the recital of a scientific naturalist, himself an 

 eye-witness of the facts which he relates, and who, we may 

 well believe, as he himself asserts, has exaggerated nothing 

 in his account of them. It is the narrative, not of an igno- 

 rant exhibitor, or an ambitious traveller, but of a philoso- 

 pher, not less distinguished for his patient habits of obser- 

 vation and comparison, than for the soundness and calmness 

 of his general deductions. We dare not, therefore, refuse 

 it a particle of credit, however little it may agree with the 

 popular notions concerning the disposition of the Wolf, and 

 the reports of travellers concerning it. Bnt this species 



