Hunting in Many Lands 



the efforts of three strong men could hardly 

 have held him. This I call fear and coward- 

 ice ; the actions of the others, a lack of proper 

 training and knowledge of how to fight. As 

 the wolf was a female and apparently heavy 

 witli whelp, I at the time thought this was the 

 cause of their queer actions ; but later, when 

 skinning the wolf for the pelt, I found no 

 evidence of whelp, but a stomach full of calf's 

 flesh. In the second course, Allan Breck, a 

 big, powerful Scotch deerhound, and Nipsic, a 

 lighter female of the same breed, were put in 

 the slips and a male wolf put up. They read- 

 ily overhauled him. Allan, leading several 

 lengths in the run up, promptly took a shoul- 

 der hold and bowled over the wolf; then, as 

 though he considered his whole duty per- 

 formed, quietly looked on, while Nipsic kept 

 up a running fight with the wolf, attacking 

 him a score of times, but was unable alone 

 to disable or kill him. It was only after the 

 wolf and Nipsic were lassoed and dragged 

 apart by horsemen that she desisted in her 

 crude efforts to kill the wolf. She displayed 

 no lack of courage, but a total lack of training 

 and knowledge of how to fight. In the final 

 course two grand specimens of the barzoi were 



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