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ticularly in his fore parts, in the muscles of its neck and jaws. 
It will carry off a sheep with ease, and with such rapidity that 
the shepherds have to use dogs to overtake it. The wolf is very 
cowardly by nature, and will not fight unless compelled to do so 
by the cravings of hunger, or to make good its retreat. Its sense 
of smell is so keen that it will scent a carcass at a distance of 
more than a league, and when leaving the woods it always travels 
against the wind. It prefers the animals destroyed by itself to 
those it may find dead ; but, in the absence of a live victim, will 
not disdain to partake of a defunct one. The color of the wolf 
differs according to the climate in which it is bred. 
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THE FALLOW DEER. 
'0 two quadrupeds are more closely allied than the stag and 
fallow deer — the only apparent difference seems to be in 
their size and the form of their horns. The fallow deer is 
much smaller than the stag, and its horns, instead of being round, 
like those of the latter animal, are broad, palmated at the ends, 
and more profusely garnished with antlers. It sheds its horns 
annually, but they fall off later than those of the stag, and are 
renewed nearly at the same time. Notwithstanding the great 
similarity in their appearance and conformation, there are no two 
animals that keep more distinct, or avoid each other with more 
