CHAPTER IV. 



THE CAYEUTE ; OR, THE PRAIRIE WOLF. 



j-MONG the most rapacious and most dangerous 

 animals of North America, the wolf (com- 

 monly called the cayeute in some of the 

 Southern States) is one with whom the 

 hunters consider an encounter to be as formidable as 

 with a panther or a grisly bear. Wolves, far more 

 numerous in North America than in Europe, are perhaps 

 more horrible to the sight than they are in the old con- 

 tinent. Everywhere along the tracks of the dreary wil- 

 derness, as well as in inhabited localities, in the environs 

 of farms and villages, in the prairies or in the woods, the 

 wolf the ghoul of the animal race bursts upon the 



