WOLF. 
-it searches about with avidity ; and, following 
.the track of wild beasts, ardently pursues 
them, in the hope that they will be stopped 
and seized by some other Wolf, with whom 
it may share the spoil. At length, becoming 
famished in the highest degree, it loses all idea 
of fear; attacks women, children, and even 
men ; becomes maddened by excessive agita- 
tion ; rages with unbridled fury ; and falls a 
vidlim to distradion. 
Such is th^ account given by BufFon, of the 
progress of insatiable hunger in this voracious 
and terrific animal. 
Comparing it with the Dog, he admits that 
they appear formed on one model ; but says, that 
the Wolf exhibits beneath a mask the charac- 
ter of the Dog. The figure is similar, but the 
result is compleatly opposite. Their natural 
dispositions are so much at variance, that they 
seem repugnant by nature, and inimical by in* 
stinft. A young dog trembles at the first 
glance of a AV^olf : the scent, though un- 
known, excites such aversion, that the little 
animal runs quivering to it's master's feet. A 
strong 
