loose
from the chain, and was away three days. When I returned home, I went
out on a hill, and called, 'where's my Tussa?' as she was named, when
she immediately came home, and fondled with me, like the most friendly
dog."

Between the dog and the wolf there is a natural enmity, and those
animals seldom encounter each other on at all equal terms without a
combat taking place. Should the wolf prove victorious, he devours his
adversary, but if the contrary be the case, the dog leaves untouched the
carcass of his antagonist.

The wolf feeds on the rat, hare, fox, badger, roebuck, stag, reindeer
and elk; likewise upon blackcock and capercali. He is possessed of great
strength, especially in the muscles of the neck and jaws, is said always
to seize his prey by the throat, and when it happens to be a large
animal, as the elk, he is often dragged for a considerable distance.

After a deep fall of snow the wolf is unusually ferocious; if he
besmears himself with the blood of a victim, or is so wounded that blood
flows, it is positively asserted that his companions will instantly kill
and devour him.

In the year 1799 a peasant at Frederickshall in Norway was looking out
of his cottage window, when he espied a large wolf enter his premises
and seize one of his goats. At this time he had a child of eighteen
months old in his arms; he incautiously laid her down in a small porch
fronting the house, and, catching hold of a stick, the nearest weapon at
hand, attacked the wolf, which was in the act of carrying off the goat.
The wolf dropped this, and getting sight of the child, in the twinkling
of an eye seized it, threw it across his shoulders, and was off like
lightning. He made good his escape, and not a vestige was ever seen of
the child.

Wolves are found all over Scandinavia, but are most common in the
Midland and Northern Provinces of Sweden. Like "Elia," they are very
partial to young pig, a failing taken advantage of by sportsmen thus:
they sew up in a sack a small porker, leaving only his snout free, and
place him in a sledge, to the back of which is fastened by a rope about
fifty feet long, a small bundle of straw, covered with black sheep skin;
this, when the sledge is in motion, dangles about like a young pig.

During a very severe winter a party started in the vicinity of
Forsbacka, well provided with guns, &c. On reaching a likely spot they
pinched the pig, which squealed lustily, and, as they anticipated, soon