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Wolfs step, as the saying is, to prey upon all weaker animal 
life. The vision and hearing, hut more particularly the sense 
of smell in the Wolf, are very fully developed. These faculties 
are of great service in enabling it to obtain food and avoid 
danger. 
When suffering from hunger it loses all caution, and becomes 
a scourge to the farmers, and a source of danger even to Man. 
In broad daylight, under such circumstances, without being 
seen, it will draw near a flock of Sheep. Eluding the vigilance 
of the Dogs, it will dart forward, seize a victim that it has 
singled out, and bear it off with such velocity as often to defy 
Fig. 154.-*Wolf carrying off a Sheep. 
pursuit. This exploit accomplished, it returns time after time to 
the scene of its previous success, until destroyed or driven from 
the neighbourhood. 
When it succeeds in obtaining entrance to a sheepfold, the 
havoc it commits is fearful, for it makes a general massacre 
among the inmates. The slaughter terminated, it carries away a 
victim for immediate use. It afterwards takes 'a second, third, 
and fourth, which it conceals in different places in the neighbour- 
ing woods. Nor does it return to its retreat until daybreak, 
devoting the last moments to secreting its booty. 
This craving for slaughter, preceding the act of hiding the 
