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for the purpose of hunting them, resembling a rough, stout, half- 
bred greyhound, but much stronger. 
“ In the county Tyrone there was then a large space of ground 
inclosed by a high stone wall, having a gap at the two opposite 
extremities, and in this were secured the flocks of the surround- 
ing farmers. Still, secure though this fold was deemed, it was 
entered by the wolves, and its inmates slaughtered. 
44 The neighbouring proprietors having heard of the noted wolf- 
hunter above-mentioned, by name Rory Carragh, sent for him 
and offered the usual reward, with some addition, if he would 
undertake to destroy the two remaining wolves that had com- 
mitted such devastation. Carragh, undertaking the task, took 
with him two wolf-dogs and a little boy, the only person he 
•could prevail on to accompany him, and, at the approach of 
night, repaired to the fold in question. 
44 4 Now,’ said Carragh to the boy, 4 as the wolves usually 
attack the opposite extremities of the sheepfold at the same 
time, I must leave you and one of the dogs to guard this one, 
while I go to the other. He steals with all the caution of a 
cat ; nor will you hear him, but the dog will, and will positively 
give him the first fall. If you are not active when he is down, 
to rivet his neck to the ground with this spear, he will rise up 
and will kill both you and the dog.’ 
44 4 I’ll do what I can,’ said the boy, as he took the spear from 
the wolf-hunter’s hand. 
44 The boy immediately threw open the gate of the fold, and 
took his seat in the inner part, close to the entrance, his faithful 
•companion crouching at his side and seeming perfectly aware of 
the dangerous business he was engaged in. The night was very 
dark and cold, and the poor little boy being benumbed with the 
•chilly air, was beginning to fall into a kind of sleep, when at 
that instant the dog, with a roar, leaped across him and laid his 
mortal enemy upon the earth. The boy was roused into double 
activity by the voice of his companion, and drove the spear 
through the wolf’s neck, as he had been directed ; at which time 
Carragh made his appearance with the head of the other.” * 
In an interesting article on the Irish wolf-dog, published in 
44 The Irish Penny Journal ” for 1841 (p. 354), the writer says : f 
44 1 am at present acquainted with an old gentleman between 
eighty and ninety years of age, whose mother remembered 
wolves to have been killed in the County of Wexford about the 
years 1730-40, and it is asserted by many persons of weight 
* 44 The Biography of a Tyrone Family ” (Belfast, 1829), p. 74. 
t This article, published under the initials of H. D. R., has since been 
admitted to have been written by H. D. Richardson, author of 44 The Dog : 
its Origin, Natural History, and Varieties,” in which work it has been em- 
bodied with additions, 1848. 
