CLASS I. MAMMALIA: OEDER 5. CARNIVORA. 
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The following story is less tragic, but not less exciting. In. Hungary, a man and a boy, on a 
sledge, AYere proceeding, just at dusk, toward a village. As tliey emerged from a wood, tlie 
owner, who was seated behind with his back to the horses, saw a Avolf rush out of the angle of 
the forest, and give chase to the sledge at the top of his speed. The inan sliouted to the boy 
who was driving, "Farkas ! farkas !" — A wolf! a wolf! — "Itze hot ! itze het !" — ^Drivc on ! and the 
h^d, looking round in terror, beheld the animal just clearing the gripe which ran along the road 
they had passed. Quick as lightning, with shout and Avhip, and Avith all his might, he urged the 
liorses to gain the village. Away they flew at their fullest stretch, as if sensible of the danger 
behind them. The man turned his seat, and urged the boy still more energetically to lash the 
horses to their very utmost speed. Ho did not need any further incentive, but pushed on the 
nags with frantic exertion. The sledge flew over the slippery road with fearful speed ; but the 
wolf urged more his utmost pace, and gained fast upon it. The village was distant about two 
hundred yards below the brow of the hill ; nothing but the wildest speed could save them, and 
the man felt that the wolf wouild inevitably spring upon them before they could get to the 
bottom. Both shouted wildly as they pursued their impetuous career, the sledge swerving 
frightfully from one side of the road to the other, and threatening every moment to turn over. 
The man then drew his thick bunda — sheep-skin — over his head ; he looked behind and saw 
the fierce, panting beast Avithin a few yards of him ; he thought he felt his hot breath in his oavu 
face ; he ensconced his head again in his bunda, and, in another moment, the Avolf spi-ang upon 
his back, and gripped into the thick sheep-skin that covered his neck. 
■With admirable presence of mind the bold-hearted peasant now thrcAV up both his hands, and 
grasping the wolf's head and neck with all his strength, hugged him with an iron clutch to his 
shoulders. "Itze het!" shouted the brave fellow, and holding his enemy in a death grip, 
they SAvept into the village, dragging the fierce brute after them, in spite of his frantic eftbi-ts to 
disengage himself. The shouts of the boy and man, with the mad speed and noise of the horses, 
brought the Anllagers out to see what Avas the matter. "Farkas! farkas!" shouted both, and the 
peasants immediately seeing their perilous position, gave chase with their axes, calling out to the 
man to hold on bravely. At length the boy succeeded in slackening the speed of the animals, 
the sledge stopped, and the peasants, rushing on, dispatched the ferocious creature upon the 
man's back, whose arms were so stiffened Avith the immense muscular exertion he had so long- 
maintained, that he could hardly loosen them from the neck of the dead Avolf. 
THE JACKAL. 
The Jackal has the dental formula of the dog. The pupil of the eye is round ; the color 
yellowish gray above, whitish below ; thighs and legs yellow ; ears ruddy ; muzzle very pointed ; 
