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prairies, the " timber wolf" may be enjoyed in coursing the animal with 

 strong courageous greyhounds. 



Although the grey wolf is an animal of great speed and endurance, 

 he is soon overtaken by those fleet-footed gaze hounds, which, when 

 they overtake him, snap at him and wound him with their sharp teeth 

 and powerful jaws, and by their extreme agility avoid his dangerous 

 attacks, keeping him at bay until the mounted hunter arrives and ter- 

 minates the chase by a well directed pistol shot. For a time this kind 

 of hunting taxes all the energies of the greyhounds, in consequence of 

 the fleetness and great staying powers of the wolf, a swiftness, however, 

 which may be termed comparatively slow work contrasted with the 

 lightning performances of that telephone of the plains, the <; Jack Kab- 

 bit," or correctly speaking, the great hare of the prairies. 



It has been affirmed by the great naturalists of America, that the 

 aborigines of this country, before the advent of white men, used domes- 

 ticated wolves instead of dogs. This can readily be credited by anv one 

 acquainted with the indian dogs of even the present day. Although 

 smaller in size, a condition superinduced by ages of neglect and starva- 

 tion, the indian dog of the present is peculiarly and positively wolfish in 

 aspect and characteristics. 



It is a notable fact that an irreconcilable antipathy has always 

 existed between the domestic dog and the tamed wolf of the Indians. 

 In their constant quarrels and combats with each other, the former are 

 always the aggressors. The Indian wolf dogs always act upon the 

 defensive ; usually trying to avoid a conflict with their more courageous 

 kinsmen. 



In other days, when the lordly bison frequented and ornamented 

 the limitless prairies of the great Northwest, when their million-hoofed 

 tramp shook the solid earth, the wolf was ever his sneaking and per- 

 sistent enemy. He silently tracked the calves, the wounded, the aged 

 and the helpless, until an opportunity presented itself for a safe attack, 



A single white arctic wolf will run down a barren ground caribou 

 and by one savage bite in the flank disable the largest buck. 



Sir John Richardson, a distinguished arctic explorer, who has con- 

 tributed many interesting facts to the general fund of natural history, 

 ^"a* I tells us that the wolves of northern America run down and capture 



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