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but his preference for animal food, soon led him to
reject all such cold "Snacks" when he could have it warm
and fresh, from the Sheepfold or Poultry yard.

It was some comfort to us, that with all his thievish rapacious
manners; that he possessed some other graceless characteristicks
that in part modified the injury that he would otherwise have done.

A mean cowardly fear of any thing like open danger, with a
constant suspicious dread of hidden snares & traps, kept him
many a time, from mischief that he might have done with impunity.

His actions while living amongst the Indians, were rather short
consisting with of the wounded game, that was lost by the hunter,
and the slight portion of offall, that was rejected from such
as was taken For the sake of this, they followed the Indians
in all their migrations; gathering by the way such small game
as crossed their path, consisting of a chance Skunk or Rabbit
from the Prairie in the timber, and a few ground squirrels,
mice, moles, frogs &c from the prairie; leaving him after all,
a rather scurvy fellow. But no sooner had he fallen into
civilized society, than like other publick loafers, he chose
the fat side; and from a poor meager mangy wanderer, soon
found himselfe transformed into a slick well fed portly fellow,
with little to do than keep out of harms way, & live at his ease

The females dig burrows in the ground, in which to rear their
young. They were sometimes found in the Prairie at a great distance
from the timber; but were more frequently found in hilly broken
grounds in the timber; especially if rocky & rugged. I have seen
dens in such places, that probably had been used for ages, as it is
a well ascertained fact, that a female once breeding in a den
or burrow, will return to the same place for the same purpose,
many years in succession; unless prevented by iminent danger

The Wolf is too wary to be easily entraped, unless the danger is most
carefully concealed; and such is his accuteness of smell joined with
a jealous disposition, that it must be well managed buisiness,
if he is induced to swallow poison. They may however be taken,
by using strichnyne, on a fresh bloody piece of Beef or Mutton;
placing it in open ground, at a distance from such
surroundings as might excite apprehension