1 84 A SPORTING PARADISE 



all the rest cut and exhausted. But often the 

 wolves were killed without his aid. 



A large wolf had killed and partially eaten a 

 sheep in a corral close to the ranch house, and 

 Porter started on the trail, and followed him at 

 a jog-trot nearly ten miles before the hounds 

 spotted him. Running but a few rods, he turned 

 viciously to bay, and the two greyhounds struck 

 him like stones hurled from a catapult, throwing 

 him as they fastened on his throat ; they held him 

 down and strangled him before he could rise, two 

 other hounds getting up just in time to help at 

 the end of the worry. 



