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purpose, stand on an entirely different footing. Three 

 or four of these dogs, rushing in together and seizing the 

 wolf by the throat, will kill him, or worry him until he 

 is helpless. On several occasions the Colorado Springs 

 greyhounds have performed this feat. Johnny Goff 

 owned a large, fierce dog, a cross between what he called 

 a Siberian bloodhound (I suppose some animal like a 

 Great Dane) and an ordinary hound, which, on one occa- 

 sion when he had shot at and broken the hind leg of a big 

 wolf, ran it down and killed it. On the other hand, wolves 

 will often attack dogs. In March of the present year 

 nineteen hundred and five Goff's dogs were scattered 

 over a hillside hunting a bobcat, when he heard one of 

 them yell, and looking up saw that two wolves were chas- 

 ing it. The other dogs were so busy puzzling out the 

 cat's trail that they never noticed what was happening. 

 Goff called aloud, whereupon the wolves stopped. He 

 shot one and the other escaped. He thinks that they 

 would have overtaken and killed the hound in a minute 

 or two if he had not interfered. 



The big wolves shrink back before the growth of the 

 thickly settled districts, and in the Eastern States they 

 often tend to disappear even from districts that are unin- 

 habited save by a few wilderness hunters. They have thus 

 disappeared almost entirely from Maine, the Adiron- 

 dacks, and the Alleghanies, although here and there they 

 are said to be returning to their old haunts. Their dis- 

 appearance is rather mysterious in some instances, for 

 they are certainly not all killed off. The black bear is 

 much easier killed, yet the black bear holds its own in 



