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have often done so, that the sport is most exciting. 

 A few concluding remarks on this subject may 

 not be amiss. I must quote once more from 

 'The Wilderness Hunter (page 402). 



" As I was very anxious to see a wolf-hunt, the 

 judge volunteered to get one up, and asked old 

 man Prindle to assist, for the sake of his two big 

 fighting dogs. They were the only dogs anywhere 

 around capable of tackling a savage timber wolf. 



" Luck favoured us. Two wolves had killed 

 a calf and dragged it into a long patch of dense 

 brush where there was a little spring, the whole 

 furnishing admirable cover for any wild beast. 

 Early in the morning we started on horseback for 

 this bit of cover, which was some three miles off. 

 The party consisted of the judge, old man 

 Prindle, a cowboy, myself, and the dogs. The 

 judge and I carried our rifles and the cowboy his 

 revolver, but old man Prindle had nothing but a 

 heavy whip, for he swore with many oaths that 

 no one should interfere with his big dogs, for by 

 themselves they would surely c make the wolf feel 

 sicker than a stuck hog/ Our shaggy ponies 

 racked along at a five-mile gait over the dewy 

 prairie grass. The two big dogs trotted behind 

 their master, grim and ferocious. The track- 



