Good Hunting 



punchers carry poison with them, and are 

 continually laying out baits, and though 

 some men devote most of their time to 

 poisoning for the sake of the bounty and 

 the fur, the results are not very remu- 

 nerative. 



The most successful wolf -hunter on the 

 Little Missouri in 1896 was a man who 

 did not rely on poison at all, but on dogs. 

 He was a hunter named Massingale, and 

 he always had a pack of at least tw r enty 

 hounds. The number varied, for a wolf 

 at bay is a terrible fighter, with jaws like 

 those of a steel trap and teeth that cut 

 like knives, so that the dogs were con- 

 tinually disabled and sometimes killed, 

 and the hunter had always to be on the 

 watch to add animals to his pack. 



It was not a pack that would appeal, as 

 far as looks go, to an old huntsman, but 

 it was thoroughly fitted for its own work. 

 Most of the dogs were greyhounds, either 

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