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gusting, and when I could endure it no longer, 

 I raised my rifle and fired two quick successive 

 shots into their midst. One wolf jumped high and 

 then fell dead, but my second shot did not act 

 as I intended, but struck the pony and brought 

 him to the ground in a dying state. 



c< The noise of the report produced a demoral- 

 ising effect on the rest, who scampered away 

 rapidly. For some seconds there was silence. 

 Then a large dog-wolf, bolder than the rest, ap- 

 peared, leading the whole pack at his heels, who 

 rushed howling and fighting to devour their 

 vanquished foe, whose feeble movements denoted 

 merely the convulsive muscle-contractions that 

 follow death. I did not wait to gaze upon the 

 hideous feast that followed, nor their hilarity as 

 they quarrelled over choice morsels. I seized 

 this opportunity to run for my life." 



Mr. Roosevelt also tells a story of wolves 

 attacking horses which may be included here. 



" A man who was engaged in packing in the 

 Cceur d'Alenes once witnessed such a feat on the 

 part of a wolf. He was taking his pack-train 

 down into a valley when he saw a horse grazing 

 therein ; it had been turned loose by another 

 packing outfit, because it had become exhausted. 



