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[may be that the wolfish nature of the Indian dogs invites such familiarity, but there is no love lost between the wolf and the dog, and it is not uncommon for the wolves to kill and eat their dog brethren.

InMetlakahtla, a large Indian village of eight hundred people, on Annette Island, in Alaska, two years ago, large gray wolves came, even in Summer nights, into the heart of the town, and the shadowy gray creatures were frequently met with on the streets. Wolves would not have come within five miles of a town of equal size of white people.

Wild animals fairly swarmed about Cathlamet.

Every now and then a choice duck of the tame flock would be heard squawking loudly and be seen progressing across the sloughs in