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fine style; usually six or eight were slipped 

 together. General Miles informs me that he 

 once had great fun in the Indian Territory 

 hunting wolves with a pack of greyhounds. 

 They had with the pack a large stub-tailed 

 mongrel, of doubtful ancestry but most un- 

 doubted fighting capacity. When the wolf 

 was started the greyhounds were sure to over- 

 take it in a mile or two; they would then 

 bring it to a halt and stand around it in a ring 

 until the fighting dog came up. The latter 

 promptly tumbled on the wolf, grabbing him 

 anywhere, and often getting a terrific wound 

 himself at the same time. As soon as he had 

 seized the wolf and was rolling over with him 

 in the grapple the other dogs joined in the 

 fray and despatched the quarry without much 

 danger to themselves. 



During the last decade many ranchmen in 

 Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana have de- 

 veloped packs of greyhounds able to kill a 

 wolf unassisted. Greyhounds trained for this 

 purpose always seize by the throat; and the 

 light dogs used for coursing jack-rabbits are 

 not of much service, smooth or rough-haired 

 greyhounds and deer-hounds standing over 

 thirty inches at the shoulder and weighing 

 over ninety pounds being the only ones that, 



