Lobo 



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 them returned, and of these, two 

 were terribly lacerated. This hunter made 

 two other attempts to capture the royal scalp, 

 but neither of them 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, 

 leaving 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 he 

 firmly believed that Lobo was a veritable 

 ' loup-garou,' and could not be killed by or- 

 dinary means. But cunningly compounded 

 poisons, charms, and incantations were all of 

 no avail against this grizzly devastator. He 



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