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one of his breed, which was acquainted with the woods, 

 he came for myself and my dog. I accompanied him to 

 the place where he had seen the last signs of the wolf, 

 when we showed the trail to the dogs, which they were 

 much puzzled to pursue ; but at last my dog, winding the 

 wolf, started olf, and the young dog followed him. 



" In a few minutes we heard them fighting, but before 

 we got near the noise ceased. We searched about some 

 time before we found them, when the wolf being nearly 

 dead, we tied up my dog, in order to let the young dog 

 have an opportunity of learning, by fighting the wolf 

 alone. After the young dog had teased him a long time, 

 the wolf recovered ; and before we were aware, he broke 

 from the trap, and ran ofi". As I had to untie my dog, by 

 that time the wolf was so far away, that we both expected 

 to lose him. However, we let my dog slip, and he and 

 the wolf ran until they got beyond our hearing. We had 

 great trouble to find the wolf; but when we did, the dogs 

 had already killed him, 



" Given according to the recollection and nearly in the 

 words of 



"Jeremiah Enlow." 



On a beautiful morning in May, I took down my gun, 

 called my dog, and with a cheerful heart and light foot 

 took my course for my hunting ground. I went from one 

 place to another, until, becoming tired of searching for 

 bears, I turned my face toward home ; when, as I was 

 walking fast, and not thinking of game, I heard a strange 

 noise, the like of which I had never heard before. Be- 

 lieving it to proceed from some kind of large bird, I 

 turned to look what it could be, when I saw tlie two paws 

 of a bear, her bod} ^eing behind a tree which she was 

 climbing, and sending her cubs up before her. As soon 

 as her cubs were as high in the tree as she wished them, 

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