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cold in their endeavours. When the wolf is once 
put up, it is then proper to have grey-hounds to 
let fly at him, in leashes, one after the other. The 
first leash is sent after him in the beginning, se- 
conded by a man on horseback ; the second are 
let loose about half a mile farther, and the third 
when the rest of the dogs come up with him 
and begin to bait him. He for a long time keeps 
them off, stands his ground, threatens them on 
all sides, and often gets away ; but usually the 
hunters, arriving, come in aid of the dogs, and 
help to dispatch him with their cutlasses. When 
the animal is killed, the dogs testify no appetite 
to enjoy their victory, but leave him where he 
falls, a frightful spectacle, and even in death 
hideous. 
The wolf is sometimes also hunted with har- 
riers ; but as he always goes straight forward, 
and often holds his speed for a whole day together, 
this kind of chase is tedious and disagreeable, at 
least if the harriers are not assisted by grey- 
hounds, who may harrass him at every view. Se- 
veral other arts have been also used to take and 
destroy this noxious animal. He is surrounded 
and wounded by men and large house-dogs ; he 
is secured in traps ; he is poisoned by carcases, 
prepared and placed for that purpose, and is 
caught in pit-falls. Gesner tells us of a friar, 
a woman, and a wolf, being taken in one ot 
these, all in the same night. The woman lost 
her senses with the fright, the friar his reputa- 
tion, and the wolf his life. All these disasters, 
however, do not prevent this animal's multiplying 
in groat numbers, particularly in countries where 
the woods are plenty. France, Spain, and Italy, 
are greatly infested with them ; but England, 
Ireland, and Scotland, are happily set free. 
JLjng Edgar is said to be the first who attempted 
