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Even if the dog was the heavier of the two, 

 his teeth and claws would be very much 

 smaller and weaker and his hide less tough. 

 Indeed I have known of but one dog which 

 single-handed encountered and slew a wolf; 

 this was the large vicious mongrel whose feats 

 are recorded in my Hunting Trips of a Ranch 

 man. 



General Marcy of the United States Army 

 informed me that he once chased a huge wolf 

 which had gotten away with a small trap on 

 its foot. It was, I believe, in Wisconsin, and 

 he had twenty or thirty hounds witH him, but 

 they were entirely untrained to wolf-hunting, 

 and proved unable to stop the crippled beast. 

 Few of them would attack it at all, and those 

 that did went at it singly and with a certain 

 hesitation, and so each in turn was disabled 

 by a single terrible snap, and left bleeding 

 on the snow. General Wade Hampton tells 

 me that in the course of his fifty years hunt 

 ing with horse and hound in Mississippi, he 

 has on several occasions tried his pack of fox 

 hounds (Southern deer-hounds) after a wolf. 

 He found that it was with the greatest diffi 

 culty, however, that he could persuade them 

 to so much as follow the trail. Usually, as 

 soon as they came across it, they would growl, 



