Having found _Ursus_ fit for himself, he had found _Homo_ fit for the beast.

Man and wolf turned their partnership to account at fairs, at village fetes, at the corners of streets where passers-by throng, and out of the need which people seem to feel everywhere to listen to idle gossip and to buy quack medicine.

The wolf, gentle and courteously subordinate, diverted the crowd.

It is a pleasant thing to behold the tameness of animals.

Our greatest delight is to see all the varieties of domestication parade before us.