A WOLF EUN. 1C 7 



dirty clothes dried or washed. The forenoon having 

 sufficed to perform these labours, a run with a wolf 

 will be found not a bad appetiser for your evening 

 meal, or remover of your little stiffnesses and ail- 

 ments, in the same way as a little exercise is necessary 

 to the hunter the day after a long or hard run. To 

 enjoy this pleasure to perfection you must be provided 

 with dogs, and there are none so suitable as the 

 strongest stamp of greyhounds; more powerful ones 

 that are addicted to grappling with the foe will get 

 fearfully mauled, for the jaws of a wolf are almost as 

 powerful as a hyena's, and consequently your limited 

 establishment would be half the time on the sick list ; 

 with the greyhound it is different. As soon as you get 

 a view, at him they go, and although the game is 

 swift, still his adversaries are not long in ranging 

 alongside, when a snap in the hams or loins imme- 

 diately brings him to bay. Determined and numerous 

 are his efforts to catch the nimble antagonists, who 

 take precious good care to keep beyond reach. After 

 a few moments of such skirmishing, the closer 

 approach of the sportsman admonishes the wolf to be 

 moving, and off he goes, best foot foremost ; but his 

 persecutors are in attendance. A hundred or two 

 yards may be traversed, and again he is brought up 

 standing from a similar cause ; thus the game is 

 played till the wolf is exhausted, and the sportsman 

 gets sufficiently close to end the episode by a well- 

 directed pistol-bullet through the grizzly marauder's 

 cranium. 



Spearing the wolf on horseback is also capital 

 sport ; but it takes a great deal out of your nag, for 

 the scoundrel while fresh will double almost as 



