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soon had a great fire blazing, and then cutting a piece from 

 the last wolf he had killed, proceeded, to roast it for food. 

 When he had eaten, he felt so much refreshed that he could 

 now proceed to make provision for the night's rest. He 

 gathered a great deal of dried wood, and built a large fire 

 in a circle about the spot he had selected to sleep upon. 

 The wolves came back in about an hour after he had finished 

 his arrangements for the night ; but he now felt perfectly 

 secure, for though he could see their hungry eyes shining 

 all round the outside of the circle, and they kept up a 

 continued howling all night long, he laid himself down and 

 slept soundly until morning. 



When he waked up, -the wolves were all gone but one or 

 two, craunching at the bones of yesterday's feast. He shot 

 one of them with his pistol, and made a breakfast oflf of it. 

 He picked up the gun, and found that though very much 

 torn, it could still be used. He now took his course, and 

 started to foot it into the settlements. After a week of 

 almost incredible sufi-ering, he got in safe, and saw nothing 

 more of the wolves or of his comrades, who are thought to 

 have been carried off prisoners, and afterwards murdered 

 by the Indians on their attempting to escape. 



Dan was sick of a fever for several weeks at Corpus Christi 

 after he got in, and raved incessantly about wolves. 



