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small pieces. Their savage dispositions are at this 
time cultivated by the parent, who brings them dif- 
ferent living animals, such as young hares, par- 
tridges, and fowls, which they are allowed to play 
with and worry till the mother thinks fit to tear 
them in pieces, and give a part to each of her young. 
The female constantly attends them till their edu- 
cation is finished, till they are strong enough to do 
without her assistance or protection, and have ac- 
quired talents fit for rapine. 
In the immense forests of Germany, where wolves 
are very numerous, the following, among other 
methods, is employed to destroy them. In the 
most retired part of the forest, a large piece of 
carrion is suspended to the branch of a tree, hav- 
ing previously made a train of some miles long, 
with small bits of putrid flesh placed at certain in- 
tervals to entice the wolves to the spot. The 
hunters then wait till it is dark, and approach the 
place very cautiously that they may not disturb the 
wolves, whom they often find busily employed in at- 
tempting to get at the food which is placed just with- 
out their reach. While thus engaged, the hunters, 
who are provided with fire-arms, have full time to 
dispatch them. 
The wolf possesses so exquisite a sense of smell- 
ing, that the odour of carrion is said to strike him 
at the distance of a league. When he issues from 
the wood, says Buflfon, he never loses the wind. 
He stops upon the borders of the forest, smells on 
all sides, and receives the emanations of living or 
