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had more real difficulty in capturing the three wolves than I experi- 

 enced in catching all the others. 



I captured the wolves in the following manner. I deposited a 

 quantity of pigs' livers and other offal in the centre of a dense cedar 

 swamp, near the present site of the Carp village, in the Township of 

 Huntly. I had heard wolves howling there after deer on several occa- 

 sions previously, and I was aware that they had killed a number of 

 sheep and a few young cattle in the neighborhood. The wolves 

 soon scented the bait, and gathered around it. I frequently had 

 the pleasure of listening to their inimitable music in the vicinity of the 

 bait. I visited the spot about three times in each week, always step- 

 ping carefully in the same tracks, going to and returning from the bait. 

 I found that during the first three weeks they had not ventured closer 

 than within six or eight feet of the bait, although the snow was beaten 

 down by their tracks all around it. 



Early in the fourth week I found that they had devoured the 

 greater part of the bait. The hour for action had arrived. I then re- 

 newed the bait, and set a trap in front of it, where they had again com- 

 menced eating. After the trap was set I was particular in leaving the 

 snow and the surroundings exactly as I found them. Next morning I 

 found the springs of the trap bare; the snow had been scraped away and 

 the bait eaten on the other side. I then set another trap on the oppo- 

 site side, and next morning found the snow and covering scratched away 

 from both traps. I was somewhat puzzled, but determined to persevere. 

 I then set both traps in such a manner, that, should the wolves attempt 

 the scratching trick again, the first part of the traps that could possibly 

 be touched would be the pan. The wolves came that night, and one of 

 them remained there; for, to my great satisfaction, I found him fast in 

 one of the traps in the morning. He was a fine, large specimen, 

 twenty-eight inches high at the shoulder, correspondingly long and 

 bulky, and weighing at least eighty pounds. 



As it has fortunately turned out for the purposes of this paper, I 

 subjected Mr. Lupus to a critical examination. I stirred him up smart- 

 ly, and experimented upon him, with the view of practically learning 

 something which I did not then know about the members of his interest- 

 ing race. I endeavoured to make him give tongue, but all my efforts 





