n whom she
knew, approached; she had pups, too, and so eager, in fact, was she that
her little ones should share with her in the notice of her friends, that
she killed all of them in succession by rubbing them against the bars of
her den as she brought them forward to be fondled."

During the last year, 8807 wolves' skins were imported by the Hudson's
Bay Company from their settlements; of which 8784 came from the York
Fort and Mackenzie River stations; we recently had the opportunity of
examining the stock, and found it principally composed of white wolves'
skins from the Churchill River, with black and gray skins of every
shade. The most valuable are from animals killed in the depth of winter,
and of these, the white skins, which are beautifully soft and fine, are
worth about thirty shillings apiece, and are exported to Hungary, where
they are in great favor with the nobles as trimming for pelisses and
hussar jackets; the gray wolves' skins are worth from three shillings
and sixpence upward, and are principally exported to America and the
North of Europe, to be used as cloak-linings.

Colonel H. Smith mentions a curious instance of the treacherous ferocity
of the wolf. A butcher at New York had brought up, and believed he had
tamed, a wolf, which he kept for above two years chained up in the
slaughterhouse, where it lived in a complete superabundance of blood and
offal. One night, having occasion for some implement which he believed
was accessible in the dark, he went into this little Smithfield without
thinking of the wolf. He was clad in a thick frieze coat, and while
stooping to grope for what he wanted, he heard the chain rattle, and in
a moment was struck down by the animal springing upon him. Fortunately,
a favorite cattle-dog had accompanied his master, and rushed forward to
defend him: the wolf had hold of the man's collar, and being obliged to
turn in his own defense, the butcher had time to draw a large knife,
with which he ripped his assailant open. The same able writer relates an
incident which occurred to an English gentleman, holding a high public
situation in the peninsula, during a wolf-hunt in the mountains, near
Madrid. The sportsmen were placed in ambush, and the country-people
drove the game toward them; presently an animal came bounding upward
toward this gentleman, so large that he took it, while driving through
the high grass and bushes, for a donkey; it was a wolf, however, whose
glaring eyes