{"id":252,"date":"2010-05-22T04:36:40","date_gmt":"2010-05-22T04:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/?p=252"},"modified":"2011-05-13T00:09:49","modified_gmt":"2011-05-13T00:09:49","slug":"he-knew-his-wolves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/?p=252","title":{"rendered":"He Knew His Wolves."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"39c6668e916543b4a7bf784d6ba1971d\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-2182508389013555\";\r\n\/* Med-Banner *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"5485677463\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Patit Mall Gazette<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 To the French country gentleman desirous of being stamped with the mark of officialism the ancient office of &#8220;Louvetier&#8221; presents the last resource when all others have failed. The office, however, cannot be obtained unless there are wolves, and wolves are not always forthcoming. The would-be louvetier has been even known to import a wolf or to rear a litter in secret, which duly grown, are let out to be hunted. This latter course, however, is not unattended with great perils. A comical story is told of a louvetier who, having reared some fine specimons of the race and turned them loose, invited the Prefect to be present at a wolf hunt. Nothing was found until, when the louvetier and his distinguished guest were riding home together, out of the bushes rushed a full-grown wolf, which rushed at the louvetier with expressions of delight which seemed like ferocity. The Prefect turned pale: the louvetier, with desperate resolution, drew his knife and stabbed the animal dead. &#8220;Bravo!&#8221; cried the Prefect. &#8220;A mere matter of practice,&#8221; said the other, coolly. &#8220;I know my wolves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 Patit Mall Gazette \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 To the French country gentleman desirous of being stamped with the mark of officialism the ancient office of &#8220;Louvetier&#8221; presents the last resource when all others have failed. The office, however, cannot be obtained unless there are wolves, and wolves are not always forthcoming. The would-be louvetier has been even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[190],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}