CHAPTER XVII. 
THE DARKIE FIDDLER AND TOD *.OLVL-. 
Poor Dan Henrie’s adventure with the wolves has reminded 
me of one or two other incidents sufficiently characteristic of 
the habits of that remarkable animal to be worthy of relation 
here, by way of interlude. 
The wolf, besides being the most ubiquitous of our 
predatory animals, is the most active, tenacious and difficult 
of extirpation. It is everywhere. It fills-in the chinks of 
desolation. Its savage, grinning head peers through all the 
broken glooms of our stern wildernesses—a ghoul-like presence 
—hideous, gaunt and fierce! It knows no sympathies, and 
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