Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

The New York Courier extracts from the Republique, published at Tarbes, (High Pyramid) France, the following horrible account of a man being destroyed by wolves near that place:
“On the night of the 4th inst., in the annals of our country, occured in the valley of Aure. A pedler was returning from the village of Sarracalin, about 9 o’clock in the evening, to his home, when in a sharp turn of the road, the miserable man found himself face to face with live wolves, which the snow had driven from the mountains into the valley to obtain something to eat. Imagine the fright, the terror of the unfortunate man. He was without arms; but his walking-stick, which was found broken, in the mud in the road, which was much stirred up, all seemed to indicate that he had opposed to the wolves a desperate, although useless resistance. How long a time the combat endured, and all the details of this horrible drama are wrapped in mystery. All that is certain is, that the wolves, after having killed their victim, dragged his body some steps from the road, and there entirely devoured it. The next day they found his shoes and fragments of his clothes; these, with a human skull, drowned in a sea of blood, being all that remained of the unfortunate man.