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than would be produced by the prick of a pin. She 
sheared off the wool from their throats, and washed 
them, and put on some salve, and turned them out, but 
in a few moments they were missing, and had not been 
found since. In fact, they were all poisoned, and those 
that were found swelled up at once, so that they saved 
neither skin nor wool. This realized the old fables of 
the wolves and the sheep, and convinced me that that 
ancient hostility still existed. Yerily, the shepherd-boy 
did not need to sound a false alarm this time. There 
were steel traps by the door, of various sizes, for wolves, 
otter, and bears, with large claws instead of teeth, to 
catch in their sinews. Wolves are frequently killed 
with poisoned bait. 
At length, after we had dined here on the usual back- 
woods fare, the horses arrived, and we hauled our batteau 
out of the water, and lashed it to its wicker carriage, and, 
throwing in our packs, walked on before, leaving the 
boatmen and driver, who was Tom’s brother, to manage 
the concern. The route, which led through the wild 
pasture where the sheep were killed, was in some places 
the roughest ever travelled by horses, over rocky hills, 
where the sled bounced and slid along, like a vessel 
pitching in a storm; and one man was as necessary to 
stand at the stern, to prevent the boat from being 
wrecked, as a helmsman in the roughest sea. The 
philosophy of our progress was something like this: 
when the runners struck a rock three or four feet high, 
the sled bounced back and upwards at the same time ; 
but, as the horses never ceased pulling, it came down on 
the top of the rock, and so we got over. This portage 
probably followed the trail of an ancient Indian carry 
round these falls. By two o’clock we, who had walked 
