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the feelings of self-reliance, rapacity, etc., we should get 

 the emotional character now presented by wolves and 

 jackals." The former need to be wise in their generation, 

 for it is but seldom that their " ways are ways of pleasant- 

 ness," and their paths are never those of peace. Their 

 gaunt frames and voracious appetites have become common 

 colloquialisms, and each has to match his astuteness against 

 all the devices for his destruction that human ingenuity 

 can invent. 



Lloyd describes the amenities and virtues that adorned 

 the character of a wolf cub belonging to Madame Bedoire ; 

 how it guarded her premises, made friends with her dog, 

 went walking with its mistress, played with her children, 

 and howled when she did not caress it. The biography of 

 this blessed infant was written by a lady ; Lloyd merely 

 inserts the account. It had to be shot when it was a year 

 old. He himself had a young she-wolf whose most notice- 

 able actions seemed to be connected with her endeavors to 

 get pigs within reach of where she was chained. " When 

 she saw a pig in the vicinity of her kennel, she, evidently 

 with the intention of putting him off his guard, would 

 throw herself on her side or back, roll, wag her tail most 

 lovingly, and look like innocence personified"; but if, as 

 occasionally happened, the pig's mind was impressed with 

 these artless ebullitions of youthful joy, and it came near 

 enough, the creature was done for. While Sir Edward 

 Belcher's ship lay in winter quarters a wolf haunted her 

 vicinity. He sat under her stern, he beguiled the dogs 

 away, he drove off all the game. Then they tried to kill 

 or capture him, but in vain. When pieces of meat were 



