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closely that when the sledge-horses reached the 
post-house and rushed into the stable, the doors 
of which were open, seven of the wolves rushed 
in after them. The driver and traveler leaped 
from the sledge just as it reached the building, 
and horses and wolves rushed past them into 
it. The men then ran up and closed the doors. 
Having obtained guns, they opened the roof, 
expecting to see that the horses had been killed. 
Instead all seven wolves were slinking about be- 
side the terrified horses. All were killed with- 
out resistance. 
; In Siberia and Russia the wolves in winter 
are literally starving. Gathering in packs, they haunt the roads, and chase the sledges with their 
unfaltering gallop.. Seldom in these days does a human life fall victim; but in very hard 
winters sledge-horses are often killed, and now and then a peasant. Rabies is very common 
among wolves. They then enter the villages, biting and snapping at every one. Numbers of 
patients are sent yearly from Russia and Hungary to the Pasteur Institutes, after being bitten by 
rabid wolves. In Livonia, in 1823, it was stated that the following animals had been killed by 
wolves: 15,182 sheep, 1,807 oxen, 1,841 horses, 3,270 goats, 4,190 pigs, 703 dogs, and numbers 
of geese and fowls. They followed the Grand Army from Russia to Germany in 1812, and 
restocked the forests of Europe with particularly savage wolves. It is said that in the retreat 
Photo by L, Medland, FLZ.S ) [North Finchley 
WHITE WOLF 
ea by Ottomar Anschutz} ; “[Berlin 
: «THE WOLF WITH PRIVY PAW” 
The photograph shows admirably the slinking gate and long stride of the wolf 
