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broken and stuck out at right angles to the upper; it was quite 

 useless. It is supposed that he was kicked by a horse. The 

 fall before a litde white-faced sorrel mare belonging to Gerome 

 Beaulieu had come running in with two gashes on her hip as 

 though a wolf had tried to hamstring her, but she was very 

 active and had known how to take care of herself; probably 

 she broke that wolf's jaw. 



The wolf was a very large one but very poor. 



About 1886 E. Nagle knew of an immense wolf that ranged 

 near Athabaska Landing. It used to travel from the Landing 

 to the Sturgeon Creek in about ten days, and would then work 

 back to the Landing, a distance of seventy miles; this was its 

 regular beat. It was well known by the great size of its track 

 and because there was no other wolf in the region. 



In February, 1886, Nagle saw it on the ice (there were six 

 inches of snow) of Athabaska River, a mile below the Landing; 

 it was chasing a coyote. The track showed that the race had 

 lasted for about a mile. When Nagle came up, the coyote was 

 killed and partly devoured. He tried to shoot the wolf but it 

 ran off. Knowing it would come back he put the coyote's body 

 into the river, left a poisoned bait on the spot and got the wolf 

 next morning. It was a male, 8 ft. 4 in. from nose to tail (skin). 

 The natives said he had lived there for years making the same 

 trip. 



In February, 1907, at a place three miles west of Smith Land- 

 ing, a wolf was trapped by the toes but escaped. In March 

 he was trapped again, at a point beyond Fort Smith, fifteen miles 

 from his first trapping, this time by the other foot, and again 

 escaped. He had now lost toes on each foot and was well marked. 



In the end of March, T. Anderson saw his fresh tracks near a 

 house, eight miles north of Fort Smith. He was shot at Fort 

 Smith about the last of May, this year, 1907. 



In December, 1906, an Indian named Shirma shot a wolf 

 near Smith Landing, breaking his hind leg. In the end of Feb- 

 ruary Murdo Mackay trapped a wolf with a broken and healed 

 hind leg at a place forty miles south of Smith Landing. As there 



