TAME WOLF AS A PET.

Evening Star, Issue 14932, 19 July 1912, Page 6

TAME WOLF AS A PET.

Mrs M. I. Lloyd tells in ' Badminton' very prettily the true life-story of a tamo wolf. She bought it as a cub from a man who had caught it on a jungle path. It soon became Iter favorite pet, and fast friends with her pet cat. Afteir eight months' absence she ueturned to Lucknow and sent for the pet she had been without bo Jong: -■- " On going out in a dressing gown I saw a creature like a beautiful collie, with a large ruff, a thick brush, and gloriocs tawny eyes, held on the chain by a wild-looking pahari (hiilman). She glared at me a moment, and when I spoke to her made a dash towards ma and threw herself at my feet, whining like a puppy, then sprang up and fawned, licking* my hands and feet, and finally lay down and rolled with sheer joy. No doubt about the recognition and the delight at being at home again! £he was let off the chain, and after dancing round me for some minutes suddenly made a bolt for my bedroom, the French windows of which opened on to the verandah, through it to the bathroom, and with one bound into my tub—as in old days. " Her appetite for meals was always small, but she loved sweets, sugar, and all sorts of cake. I kept a bag of large browu bull's-eyes in my room wherewith to appease her when she took it into her head to howl at the moon. After two or three she would be quite comforted and lie down quietly to sleep." "Grannie," as the wolf was called, had a particular dislike to black clothes. The sight of a clergyman made her lay her nose to the ground and howl. The poor beastie died at the Zoo in I/ondon.