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training. President Roosevelt knew one wolf 

 to kill a bulldog, which had rushed at it, with 

 a single snap of his long-toothed jaws, and the 

 admirable training in which he always is gives 

 him a great advantage over fat, small-toothed, 

 smooth-skinned dogs, even though they are 

 nominally supposed to belong to the fighting 

 classes. General Wade Hampton, during his 

 fifty years' hunting with horse and hound in 

 Mississippi, has on several occasions tried his 

 pack of foxhounds with a wolf. He found 

 that it was with the greatest difficulty, however, 

 that he could persuade them to so much as 

 follow the trail. Usually, as soon as they came 

 across it, they would growl, bristle up, and then 

 retreat with their tails between their legs. Only 

 one of his dogs ever really tried to master a wolf 

 by itself, and this one paid for its temerity 

 with its life ; for while running a wolf in a 

 cane-brake the beast turned and tore it in pieces. 

 Finally, General Hampton succeeded in getting 

 a number of his hounds to follow the trail in 

 full cry, and thus drive the wolf out of the thicket, 

 and give a chance to the hunter to get a shot. 

 In this way he killed two or three. 



During the past sixteen years I have crossed 



