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which universally accompanies physical love. The author 

 just cited gives us another instance of this affectionate dis- 

 position in one of this species, the degree of which is 

 utterly unaccountable. A She-Wolf, in this particular, 

 evinced more sensibility than the most attached and faith- 

 ful Dog could possibly do. At the least word, expressed 

 with kindness, the slightest pat of encouragement, she would 

 presp against you, turn in all manner of ways, as if to 

 touch you better, and send forth a soft and plaintive cry, ex- 

 pressive of the pleasure which she felt ; nay, her emotion 

 was so powerful as, solvere vesicarrit etfacere ut copiose uri, 

 nam redderet. But it was not merely to her master that 

 she testified this extraordinary feeling ; it was produced by 

 the caresses of every person who approached her. It would 

 appear that it was merely the caresses which produced this 

 effect, and that (unlike the last example) there was no dis- 

 criminating sentiment of regard. 



These were not the only examples of Wolves completely 

 tamed in the Royal Menagerie. In 1800, there was a She- 

 Wolf there, which had been caught in a snare, and which, 

 though taken when adult, became so thoroughly tame, that 

 she lived familiarly among the Dogs, with which she re- 

 produced several times. She would bark like them, when- 

 ever she perceived a stranger, and she was so completely 

 cured of her taste for poultry, that she might be suffered, 

 with impunity, to enjoy the utmost freedom. 



lli his wild state, the Wolf exhibits none of the charac- 

 teristics we have been detailing. Surrounded by enemies, 

 and living always in fear and distrust, he is gloomy and 

 brutal. In the gray of the morning, or at the approach of 

 evening twilight, during the night in summer, or in the 

 most sombre days of winter, he stalks forth in search of 

 food, which, in cultivated countries, he rarely finds in 

 abundance. It consists for the most part of the dead re- 

 mains of d©j»estic animals ; and in thinly-wooded tracts, of 



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