THE WOLF. 159 



at any time lived unmolested in Scotland. As 

 the herdsman's foe, it was always regarded as a beast 

 to be pursued and killed whenever and wherever 

 practicable, and from the earliest times the chase 

 of the Wolf was considered by kings and nobles 

 to be one of the most exciting and enjoyable of field- 

 sports. 



"We learn from Holinshed that Dorvadil, the fourth 

 King of the Scots, " set all his pleasure on hunting 

 and keeping of houndes and greyhoundes, ordayning 

 that every householder should find him two houndes 

 and one greyhounde. If a hunter chanced in following 

 the game to lose an eye or a limme, so that he were 

 not able to helpe himselfe after that time, he made 

 a statute that he should be founde of the common 

 treasury. He that killed a Wolf should have an oxe 

 for his paines. This beast, indeed, the Scottish men 

 even from the beginning used to pursue in al they 

 might devise, because the same is suche an enemie 

 to cattayle, wherein consisted the chief est portion of 

 all their wealth and substance."* 



Of a later king, Ederus, we are told that his 

 "chiefe delighte was altogyther in hunting and 

 keeping of houndes and greyhoundes, to chase and 

 pursue wild beastes, and namely the Woolfe the 

 herdsman's foe, by means whereof his advancement 

 was muche the more acceptable amongst the nobles, 

 who in those dayes were whollye given to that kynde 

 of pleasure and pastyme."+ 



* Holinshed's "Chronicles of Scotland," 1577, p. 13. 

 t Holinshed, torn. cit. p. 27 



