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WOLF* 
ger, lie braves danger, and comes to attack those 
animals which are under the protection of man, 
particularly such as he can readily carry away, 
lambs, sheep, or even dogs themselves, for all 
animal food becomes then equally agreeable. 
When this excursion has succeeded, he often 
returns to the charge, until having been wounded, 
or hard pressed by the dogs or the shepherds, 
he hides himself by day in the thickest covets and 
only ventures out at night ; he then sallies forth 
over the country, keeps peering round the villages, 
carries off such animals as are not under protec- 
tion, attacks the sheep-folds, scratches up and 
undermines the thresholds of doors where they 
are housed, enters furious, and destroys all before 
he begins to hx upon and carry off his prey. 
When these sallies do not succeed, he then returns 
to the thickest part of the forest, content to pur- 
sue those smaller animals, which, even when taken, 
afford him but a scanty supply. He there goes 
regularly to work, follows by the scent, opens to 
the view, still keeps following, hopeless himself 
of overtaking the prey, but expecting that some 
other wolf will come into his assistance, and then 
content to share the spoil. At last, when his 
necessities are very urgent, lie boldly faces certain 
destruction ; he attacks women and children, and 
sometimes ventures even to fall upon men, becomes 
furious by his continual agitations, and ends his 
life in madness. 
The wolf, as well externally as internally, sc 
nearly resembles the dog, that he seems modelled 
upon the same plan ; and yet he only offers the 
reverse of the model. If his form be like, his na- 
ture is so different, that he only preserves the ill 
qualities of the dog, without any of his good ones. 
Indeed, they are so different in their dispositions, 
that no two animals can have a more perfect antii 
