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THE WOLF. 
it is very cold, and the snow is deep, he will join 
with many more of his own kind and form a pack, 
and they will all get very bold, and fly at any one 
whom they may meet Many ways are used to get 
rid of them ; I will tell you one. Nine or ten men 
go out into a w^ood, and cut down some firs ; with 
the fir logs they make a kind of hut, very high, so 
that a Wolf can not jump up to the roof : they then 
put some live pigs in the hut, and give them food ; 
they then get on to the roof with as many guns as 
they can get, and wait. The pigs soon cry out 
over the food, and then, by and bye, a Wolf will be 
seen to lurk near, and then one or two more, till at 
last all the pack will come out of the wood, and 
rush up and down on the snow, and try to get at 
the pigs, and howl as loud as they can. Now is 
the time for the men on the roof to fire, and this 
they all do at once. As soon as a Wolf is shot, all 
the rest rush on him and eat him up ; and even if 
he is only hurt, and not dead, they will kill him 
and eat him. The men keep up a fire from the 
guns as long as any of the pack are to be seen, but 
when a good many are dead the rest get shy, and 
go back to the wood, and run away. 
