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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 7 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, 



