lo Lobo 



every direction. The old wolf at once made 

 for the nearest of these and by crossing it got 

 rid of the horsemen. His band then scattered 

 and thereby scattered the dogs, and when they 

 reunited at a distant point of course all of the 

 dogs did not turn up, and the wolves, no longer 

 outnumbered, turned on their pursuers and 

 killed or desperately wounded them all That 

 night when Tannerey mustered his dogs, only 

 six of thera returned, and of these, two were 

 terribly lacerated. This hunter made two 

 other attempts to capture the royal scalp, but 

 neither of thera was more successful than the 

 first, and on the last occasion his best horse 

 met its death by a fall ; so he gave up the 

 chase in disgust and went back to Texas, leav- 

 ing Lobo more than ever the despot of the 

 region. 



Next year, two other hunters appeared, de- 

 termined to win the promised bounty Each 

 believed he could destroy this noted wolf, the 

 first by means of a newly devised poison, which 

 was to be laid out in an entirely new manner ; 

 the other a French Canadian, by poison as- 

 sisted with certain spells and charms, for be 

 firmly believed that Lobo was a veritable 

 ' ioup-garou,' and could not be killed by oiv 

 dinary means. But cunningly compounded 



