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part in the killing. The big dogs more than 

 occupied the wolf s attention and took all the 

 punishing, while in a trice one of the grey 

 hounds, having seized him by the hind-leg, 

 stretched him out, and the others were biting 

 his undefended belly. The snarling and yell 

 ing of the worry made a noise so fiendish 

 that it was fairly bloodcurdling; then it grad 

 ually died down, and the second wolf lay limp 

 on the plain, killed by the dogs unassisted. 

 This wolf was rather heavier and decidedly 

 taller than either of the big dogs, with more 

 sinewy feet and longer fangs. 



I have several times seen wolves run down 

 and stopped by greyhounds after a break-neck 

 gallop and a wildly exciting finish, but this 

 was the only occasion on which I ever saw 

 the dogs kill a big full-grown he-wolf unaided. 

 Nevertheless various friends of mine own 

 packs that have performed the feat again and 

 again. One pack, formerly kept at Fort Ben- 

 ton, until wolves in that neighborhood became 

 scarce, had nearly seventy-five to its credit, 

 most of them killed without any assistance 

 from the hunter; killed moreover by the grey 

 hounds alone, there being no other dogs with 

 the pack. These greyhounds were trained to 

 the throat-hold, and did their own killing in 



