The Timber-wolf 



up within two or three minutes after the 

 wolf was taken, the dogs literally tore 

 him to pieces, though one or more of 

 their number might be killed or crippled 

 in the fight. 



Other hunters were striving to get to- 

 gether packs thoroughly organized, and 

 the wolves may be thinned out; they 

 were certainly altogether too plentiful. 

 During the fall of 1896 I saw a number 

 myself, although I was not looking for 

 them. I frequently came upon the re- 

 mains of sheep and young stock which 

 they had killed, and once, on the top of a 

 small plateau, I found the body of a large 

 steer, while the torn and trodden ground 

 showed that he had fought hard for his 

 life before succumbing. There were ap- 

 parently two wolves engaged in the work, 

 and the cunning beasts had evidently 

 acted in concert. While one attracted 

 the steer's attention, the other, according 



