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THE WOLF. 
These animals are subject to that dreadf*^ 
canine malady, the hydrophobia ; a melal’' 
choly proof of which occurred in the saiH^ 
year, 1821 , in a small village in the depad' 
ment of the Upper Pyrenees, in France, whe" 
two men, who had been bitten by a wolf 
this rabid state, died of the disease. 
The British islands are almost the onlj 
portion of Europe in which the wolf has bee'' 
exterminated; though under the Saxon ffl"' 
narchs he was very common in them. In 
reign of Athelstan wolves abounded in Yorb' 
shire to such a degree that, at Flixton, ned 
Scarborough, a place of retreat was built fd 
the protection of travellers against their at* 
tacks. King Edgar remitted the punishmed 
of certain crimes on the production of a sp^ 
cified number of wolves’ tongues ; and instea*^ 
of the annual tribute payable by Wales, 
exacted three hundred wolves’ heads. 
withstanding these efforts to extirpate tb^ 
