WOLF. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Canis Lupus. C. cauda incurvata. Linn. Syst. Nat. Gmel. 1. 
p. 70 . 
Tail bent inwards. 
Canis ex griseo flavescens. Briss. Quadr. p. 170. 
Wolf. . . Sm. Buff. 4. p. 196. pi. 67. Penn. Hist. Quadr. 1 . 
p. 248. n. 159. Arct. Zool. 1. p. 38. Shaw 
Gen. Zool. pi. 75. Bew. Quadr. p. 285. 
The wolf is naturally savage, but he is at the same 
time cowardly ; and although when pressed by 
hunger he will attack even man himself, yet if he 
happens to be taken in a pit-fall, he is immediately 
intimidated, and rendered, from fear, incapable of 
resistance. In this situation a person may safely 
go in, put a collar about his neck, and drag him 
from the hole. A strong natural antipathy exists 
between the wolf and the dog: their dispositions 
are very opposite, though in external appearance 
they are so much alike. A young dog trembles at 
the first glance of a wolf; and even his smell, though 
new and unknown, excites such an aversion in the 
puppy that he flies from it, and comes quivering to 
the feet of his master. 
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