eed and noise of the horses, brought the
villagers out to see what was the matter. 'Farkas! farkas!' shouted
both, and the peasants immediately seeing their perilous position, gave
chase with their axes, calling out to the man to hold on bravely. At
length the boy succeeded in slackening the speed of the animals, the
sledge stopped, and the peasants, rushing on, dispatched the ferocious
creature upon the man's back, whose arms were so stiffened with the
immense muscular exertion he had so long maintained, that he could
hardly loose them from the neck of the dead wolf."

An unfortunate clergyman, in the neighbourhood of Eauxbonnes in the
Basses Pyrenees, was not as fortunate as the Slovack peasant; for, as he
was returning from visiting the sick in January, 1830, he was beset by
hungry wolves, and torn to pieces by them; the fragments which they
left, and the blood upon the snow, alone telling his fate.

The North American wolves are not as gaunt as those of Europe, having
shorter legs, thicker fur, shorter muzzle, broader heads, more bushy
tail, and being altogether more compact. Their habits, however, are much
the same, A farmer in New Hampshire was one night awakened by a noise
in his hog-pen; on looking out he saw, what he supposed to be a fox, on
the low, sloping roof of the sty. He went out, but found that the animal
was a grey wolf, which, instead of making off, fiercely attacked him,
rushing down the roof towards him; and before the man had time to move
back, the wolf had bitten his arm three times, with his quick and
repeated snaps, lacerating it from the elbow to the wrist; then,
however, he leaped from the roof to the ground, and by so doing lost his
advantage; for the man succeeded in seizing him on each side of the neck
with his hands, and held him firmly in that position till his wife, whom
he called out, came up with a large butcher's knife, and cut the beast's
throat. It was three months before the man's arm was healed; every
incision, it was said, piercing to the bone.[5]

A white wolf always attends the bull, called buffalo, of Western
America; besides which the same country affords other varieties. Among
them are the Coyotes, or Medicine Wolves, of the Indians, who show them
great reverence. They are small, sagacious, and cunning; assemble in
packs, and hunt in troops of from three to thirty, along the runs of
deer and antelopes, and run down their quarry. When game has been killed
by hunters, they s