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He endeavored to relight his lamp, he said, but his 

 hands so shook with fright that he did not succeed. He 

 lighted match after match, according to his story, and from 

 the faint illumination could see the gleaming eyes of the 

 wolves as they trotted about him. Thoroughly unnerved, 

 he fired charges from his shotgun until he had used up his 

 last shell, and then took his paddle and slapped it vigorously 

 on the water and against the side of his pirogue in an effort 

 to imitate shots from his gun. 



Keeping this up until daylight came and the wolves 

 made off, Moore paddled his pirogue into a waterway and 

 made his way to the Cameron Farms ranch, where he was 

 found by Adam Deville, cattle foreman, in an unnerved con- 

 dition as a result of his experience of the night. His death 

 a few months later has been attributed to this experience. 



The probabilities are that the wolf pack was attracted 

 by the odor of blood from the alligators Moore had been 

 skinning and that the members of the wolf pack had no 

 intention of attacking the aged and experienced hunter, as 

 the Louisiana wolf is, as are the wolves elsewhere, cowardly 

 to an extreme. 



A wolf litter found in La Salle parish was dropped 

 soon after the first of the year and of the four young, one 

 was a male. Even in this piney woods section of the state 

 the wolves have become very obnoxious because of their 

 depredations on live stock, and cattle men in West Feliciana 

 parish now fear an increase of their number as the cattle 

 and sheep raising business in this former cotton-raising 

 territory is growing in importance, as in Louisiana, as else- 

 where, the wolves and coyotes seem to expand in numbers 

 with the growth of civilization. It is not unlikely, there- 

 fore, that in a few years stringent and systematic cam- 

 paigns against wolves in this state will have to be planned 

 and carried out. 



