Wolves and Wolf Nature 



blood, and into this strips of the meat were 

 thrown. The remaining meat of the carcass 

 was then thoroughly poisoned by scattering 

 the strychnine over it, and this might even be 

 rubbed into the flesh along with the warm 

 blood taken from the hollow of the ribs. 

 Often, while this was being done, the wolfer 

 would be surrounded by a circle of ten or 

 a dozen or more wolves, waiting patiently 

 for him to complete his operations and go 

 away, so that their meal might begin. In 

 those days wolves had no fear of man. They 

 were very seldom shot at, and knew of the 

 gun chiefly as an implement to call them to a 

 feast. 



It was remarkable to see how quickly the 

 wolves stripped the meat from the carcass of 

 a buffalo ; and the same thing, but in a less 

 degree, can be seen to-day if a small bunch of 

 wolves kill a range animal. 



Facts bearing on these points are given by 

 Joseph Kipp, an educated and thoroughly 

 reliable Mandan half-breed, now nearly fifty 

 years old, who was born and reared on the 

 Missouri. In an interview quoted by Mr. 

 J. W. Schultz in Forest and Stream, Mr. Kipp 

 recently said: 



161 



