. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. !:32 HlfiTOliY. or ; A single Wolf haicUy ever dares attack a man, for he is essentially a cowardly nuimal, but a child may be now and then cairied off, and a man or a body of men may be attacked by an immense troop of Wolves, and then, unless they can get to a vdlage or some other shelter, their iate is sealed. They may kill the Wolves By dozens, expend all their ammunition, making every shot tell, fell the howling monsters till theii- swords are hacked like FalstafiTs, but it is all of no avail; each falling Wolf is r
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. !:32 HlfiTOliY. or ; A single Wolf haicUy ever dares attack a man, for he is essentially a cowardly nuimal, but a child may be now and then cairied off, and a man or a body of men may be attacked by an immense troop of Wolves, and then, unless they can get to a vdlage or some other shelter, their iate is sealed. They may kill the Wolves By dozens, expend all their ammunition, making every shot tell, fell the howling monsters till theii- swords are hacked like FalstafiTs, but it is all of no avail; each falling Wolf is replaced by a fresh one hungrier and more \4gorous than hiinself, and the end, unless sxiccouv come, can only be death by the teeth and a grave in the maw of perhaps hundreds? of Wolves. It is related that, in 1812, twenty-four French soldiere were attacked by Wolves, and after a hard fight, were aU slain and devoured; their comrades found only the remains of their arms and uniforms, together. COMMON WOLK. with a few bones, and the bodies of two or three hundred Wohes who hail fallen in the imequal struggle, only to add to their comrades' banquet. nie destruction v^Tought by animals in countries where they abound is veiy gi-eat. "In 1823, in Livonia, a declaration made to the authorities stated, ha\ing been carried off by Wolves, 15,182 Sheep; 1,807 Oxen; 1,841 Horses ; 3,270 Goats; 4,190 Pigs; 703 Dcg.';; and 1,873 Fowk and ; Tlie Wolf, savage though he ;e, is quite tamable; he has often shown gi-eat devotion to his master, and has, in fact, behaved in every respect like an affectionate Dog, a very interesting iaci, as bearing upon the evolution of Dogs from wild Canula;. The most remarkable instance of this with wliich we have met is the follomng, which shows the Wolf to be—what one would never .suspect him to be—capable of that almost superhuman affection, which is sometimes exliibited by Dogs:—«A lady near Geneva had a tame Wolf, which
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