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himself secure, he waves his tail erect in triumph, and boldly 
pushes on to cover.” 
“ Hearne, in his journey to the Northern Ocean, says, that 
the wolves always burrow under ground at the breeding season ; 
and though it is natural to suppose them very fierce at those 
times, yet he has frequently seen the Indians go to their dens, 
take out the cubs and play with them. These they never hurt, 
and always scrupulously put them in the den again, although 
they occasionally painted their faces with vermilion and red 
ochre, in strange and grotesque patterns. 
“ This statement is supported by incidents which have oc- 
curred in the metropolis. There was a bitch wolf in the Tower 
Menagerie, which, though excessively fond of her cubs, suffered 
the keepers to handle them, and even remove them from the den 
without evincing the slightest symptom either of anger or 
alarm; and a still more remarkable instance is related from ob- 
servation by Mr. Bell : — ‘There was a wolf at the Zoological 
Gardens (says that able naturalist) which would always come 
to the front bars of the den as soon as I or any other person whom 
she knew approached : she had pups, too; and so eager, in fact, 
was she that her little ones should share with her in the notice of 
her friends, that she killed all of them in succession by rubbing 
them against the bars of her den as she brought them forward to 
be fondled.’” 
“The wolf will breed with the dog; the first instance in this 
country took place in 1766, when a litter, the offspring of a wolf 
and Pomeranian bitch, was bom at Mr. Brooke’s, a dealer in ani- 
mals in the New-road : one of these pups was presented to the 
celebrated John Hunter, who says, ‘ its actions were not truly 
those of a dog, having more quickness of attention to what pass- 
ed, being more easily startled, as if particularly apprehensive 
of danger ; quicker in transition from one action to another, 
being not so ready to the call, and less docile. From these pe- 
culiarities it lost its life, having been stoned to death in the 
streets for a mad dog.’ Another of these puppies subsequently 
bred with other dogs, and it is a decendant of her’s which lies 
buried in the gardens of Wilton House, and is commemorated 
by the following inscription on the stone which covers her : — 
Here lies Lupa, 
Whose grandmother was a wolf, 
Whose father and grandfather were dogs, and whose 
Mother was half wolf and half dog. She died 
On the 16th of October, 1782, 
Aged 12 years. 
“ In another instance where a bitch-wolf bred with a dog, 
two of the puppies had large black spots on a white ground ; 
