24 SAVAGE SVANETIA. 



whipping can get another trot out of the 

 wolf. 



When this happens, the feat of the day has 

 to be performed, and cool and quick must the 

 man be who achieves it successfully. The 

 object of the hunt is to secure the wolf alive, 

 and for this, when he lies down for the last 

 time, the nearest horseman dismounts, and 

 approaching the wolf from behind pins him 

 behind the ears with his naked hands, and so 

 holds him fast while the rest of the party 

 muzzle and bind him. Then they carry him 

 home all alive, oh ! What they do with him 

 when they get him there deponent sayeth not. 



Apropos of this kind of sport, there was 

 some years ago at St. Petersburg a Captain 

 H., who used to treat Bruin in a somewhat 

 similar fashion. As the ordinary methods of 

 bear-slaying may have become stale and flat to 

 some of our hot-blooded Nimrods, let me offer 

 them this new recipe. Immediately after the 



