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THE WOLF. 
that sinister look of apprehension united wh'’ 
ferocity by which the wolf species in generi*' 
is characterised. The tail of the America'' 
wolf is shorter, the head larger, the 
rounder, than that of the European : his 
pression has less of that character which 
call sneaking, but he is equally voracious. 
Of the habits of the wolves of AmeriC' 
w'here there are several varieties, we ha'^ 
been furnished with interesting particulars W 
recent travellers. In the perilous journey 
Captain Franklin to the Polar Sea, he afl** 
his companions were often obliged to conteH^ 
for their scanty fare with the prowling wolv^' 
of those inclement regions. On one occasio"' 
when they had killed a moose-deer, and buri^*^ 
part of the body, the wolves absolutely dug ’’ 
out from under their feet and devoured 
while the weary men were asleep. At a"' 
other time, when the travellers had killed " 
deer, they saw by the light of the aurot" 
