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• who opened the stable-door as usual, 
the dog rushed out, leaped over the 
gate, and was never seen afterwards ; 
j ^ould it ever be traced to whom he he- 
'^Sed, whence he came, or whither he went, 
THE WOLF. 
s ^'^^'tures of the wolf have a general re- 
do^ those of the large shepherd’s 
with a head, however, which approaches 
closely to that of the dingo, or dog of 
tio^ From the nose to the inser- 
^he tail the wolf measures about three 
in ^ length, and two and a half 
®ight. In Europe his colour is a mixed 
^nd * and gray; in Africa ash-coloured 
in rnd 5 in America, entirely black 
nnd white in winter, or of a reddish 
In all the species the colour of the eye- 
