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Title: Four-footed Americans and their kin
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Wright, Mabel Osgood, 1859-1934 Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945, ed Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946, ill
Subjects: Mammals Animal behavior
Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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m^mmm ^ILL you piease choose one of the dog family? asked Rap the next Saturday, when it was Nats turn to select a picture for the story. Yes, I meant to choose this one — the Wolf, said Nat; and the picture looks as if a story really belonged to it. A Trap is printed on the picture, said Dodo, but I dont see any trap, unless the Wolf is caught in one and cant move. Wrong, quite wrong, missy, said the Doctor, set-tling himself by the fire, after taking a couple of skinsfrom those hanging about the walls and spreading thembefore him on the floor. Listen, and I will tell you the story of the greatGray Wolf, whose picture you have here, and alsoabout his little barking brother, the Coyote. It is sure to be a good fierce story, said Dodo,because Wolves gobble people, you know. Whenyou lived far away, were you good friends with Wolves,uncle? Our American Wolves are not man-eaters as some 212
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Timber Wolf. WOLF! 213 of their Old World brothers are thought to be, but say-ing that I am a friend of Wolves and know all aboutthem — that is quite a different matter. A Wolf has no friends; he is hated by twofootsand fourfoots alike. As for knowing all about Wolveswe may know some things and think we know others,but the coinings and goings of a Wolf are as mysteriousas the track of the wind itself. They move from placeto place so suddenly and so swiftly that it would beeasy to believe they flew on the storm, as witches weresaid to do on broomsticks. Why do you say that some Wolves in other coun-tries are thought to eat people — dont you believe theydo ? asked Nat. They may sometimes, but it is best not to believeall that is said about animals ; for there are a greatmany of what Rap calls boast stories floating around,especially about Wolves. The Wolf is one of the easi-est animals to see doubled and hear quadrupled. Onemay believe that a Avhole pack is outside the tent, benton

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