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then the hounds were put on the scent, and after 
a glorious chase, hounds and wolves returned 
together to the kennels en very good terms with 
each other. 
Count Le Couteulx 's wolves were most 
friendly with their master for whom they showed 
the greatest affection, though they had a vicious 
Count Le Couteulx dc Canteleu's huntsman Trotty 
and his Wolf " Lymer." 
knack for snapping at one when taken by sur- 
prise, but they had been cured of that tendency 
by the Count seizing the culprit by (he. scruff of 
the neck and rubbing it's gufs with his knotty 
riding stick so far as to draw blood. One day, 
as he was kneeling over a wolf and inflicting thai 
kind of punishment, one of the brutes nol recog- 
nising it's master from behind, came to the rescue 
and seized the Count by the fat part of his hind 
quarters. Without releasing the animal he was 
dealing with, the Count simply turned nis head 
and called out to the offender by it's name, 
"Jane!" whereupon "Jane" let go and, ashamed 
of herself, skulked in a dark corner of the kennel. 
With a view of putting- to the test the scent- 
ing capabilities of wolves, Count Le Couteulx had 
trained two of his pets to act as lymcrs for un- 
harbouring wild quarry in the forest of Lyons, and 
very good work has done the Count's huntsman, 
Trotty, with his wolf-lymer in unravelling the 
tracks of the boars which were the usual animals 
of the chase of the St. Martin's pack when wolves' 
had got scarce. 
Alas, poor Yorick ! The louvetier des Ande- 
lys, his wolves and hounds, and many of the boon 
companions of my youth, have departed for more 
happy hunting fields, should say the Red Indian, 
but I still have the howl of those pet wolves ring- 
ing in my ears as when on a quiet evening, sipping 
our coffee on the terrace of the chateau, after a 
hard day's ride, the wolves from their far off 
kennels responded to the whistle of their master 
whom they instantly recognised. 
WILD ANIMALS AS HOUSE PETS. 
By Robert Leadbetter. 
"JOHNNIE." 
"Johnnie" was the tamest lion I ever owned, 
the best-behaved lion I ever owned. 
For some years I was very successful breed- 
ing lions, and had two or three' cubs in the house 
at different times, but only one who stayed on to 
become a lion— "Johnnie." With all wild animals 
nearly, I have found, alluding always to those 
who have not had their tempers previously soured, 
by rough usage, when they once know you will 
not hurt "them," they will not try to hurt' "you," 
unless, in some ungovernable fit of fury, from some 
exceptional cause, and even then, as' a rule, they 
will not forget past kindnesses. Hut woe be to he, 
Who has systematically bullied them then! 
Though where ordinary intelligence is displayed 
in their management, These out-bursts arc, not lo 
be feared, without cause. Naturally there are 
exceptions; 1 am speaking in general' terms, hut 
my experience with them lias taught me most 
animals remember kindness — and many long 
cherish the reverse. 
Seme people would have us believe animals 
empers are soured by confinement. Where the\ 
