Lobo 



suing Lobo with hounds and horses, so that 

 poison or traps were the only available expe- 

 dients. At present we had no traps large 

 enough, so I set to work with poison. 



I need not enter into the details of a hun- 

 dred devices that I employed to circumvent 

 e&^fctjis this ' loup-garou ' ; there was no combination 

 of strychnine, arsenic, cyanide, or prussic acid, 

 that I did not essay ; there was no manner of 

 flesh that I did not try as bait ; but morning 

 after morning, as I rode forth to learn the result, 

 I found that all my efforts had been useless. 

 The old king was too cunning for me. A 

 single instance will show his wonderful sagacity. 

 Acting on the hint of an old trapper, I melted 

 some cheese together with the kidney fat of a 

 freshly killed heifer, stewing it in a china dish, 

 and cutting it with a bone knife to avoid the 

 taint of metal. When the mixture was cool, I 

 cut it into lumps, and making a hole in one 

 side of each lump, I inserted a large dose of 

 strychnine and cyanide, contained in a capsule 

 that was impermeable by any odor ; finally I 

 sealed the holes up with pieces of the cheese 

 itself. During the whole process, I wore a 



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