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hunter himself will get up in time to end the 

 worry by a stab of his hunting-knife ; but 

 unless he is quick he will have nothing to do, 

 for the pack is thoroughly competent to do 

 its own killing. Grim fighter though a great 

 dog-wolf is, he stands no show before the on- 

 slaught of ten such hounds, agile and power- 

 ful, who rush on their antagonist in a body. 

 They possess great power in their jaws, and 

 unless Massingale is up within two or three 

 minutes after the wolf is taken, the dogs liter- 

 ally tear him to pieces, though one or more of 

 their number may be killed or crippled in the 

 fight. 



Other hunters are now striving to get to- 

 gether packs thoroughly organized, and the 

 wolves may soon be thinned out ; but at 

 present they are certainly altogether too plen- 

 tiful. Last fall I saw a number myself, al- 

 though I was not looking for them. I fre- 

 quently came upon the remains of sheep and 

 young stock which they had killed, and once, 

 on the top of a small plateau, I found the 

 body of a large steer, while the torn and trod- 

 den ground showed that he had fought hard 

 for his life before succumbing. There were 



apparently two wolves engaged in the work, 



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