and trained in Pulaski county. The 
second night of his visit, a ’possum 
hunt was formed to work the cypress 
bottom. The visiting dog was not long 
in picking up a fresh scent and dashed 
off to follow it. The hunters heard 
him, while about a hundred yards| 
bark. 
Right in the midst of it he gave one, 
ahead, break into his “treed” 
yelp. Then there was silence. Rushing 
up they found him literally torn to 
pieces and he died while they were 
looking at him. The theory is that if 
he had been a “home county dog’ he 
would still be alive. Coming from a 
wolfless country, he had no warning 
of his peril and fell a victim to his own 
innocence of mind, concentrating on the 
sport he loved when he should have 
been keeping his whole nose and all 
but one eye on the lookout for -wolf. 
A stockman, whose place lies about 
two miles west of Hickory Plains, is 
the nearest human neighbor of “Old 
Blue” and has been the greatest in- 
dividual sufferer from his raids. Not 
only does the bandit take toll of stock 
on range or in the pastures, but when 
he gets hungry he does not hestitate 
to prowl close up to the homestead. 
Early this last fall he was seen, in 
broad daylight, to jump into a corral 
where a flock of goats were penned,| «< 
seize and kill one of the animals and 
drag it over the fence. ‘Old Blue” 
was so hotly pursued with shot and 
hounds on this occasion that he had 
to abandon his kill to make his get- 
away. The avengers, knowing wild 
nature, dosed the goat carcass thor- 
oughly with poison and left it lying in 
the brush. Going back a few days 
later, they found that most of the flesh 
had been eaten. For some time after- 
wards, “Old Blue” was not seen and 
his enemies congratulated themselves 
on having double-crossed him out of 
existence, but their self-congratulations 
were short lived. 
Since he has demonstrated that 
poisoned goat meat is too crude a 
stratagem to match against his cun- 
ning, “Old Blue” has been seen re- 
peatedly, and has been elected the 
victim in several wolf hunts more en- 
thusiastically joined in by the human 
than by the canine participants. Both 
as a matter of sport and as a matter 
of grim necessity, the farmers of the 
Hickory Plains country are determined 
to keep after “Old Blue” until they 
get him. But they are looking forward 
to no easy task. 
“Old Blue” gets his nickname from 
his color which is similar to that of a 
merle collie. That he is a thorough- 
bred full-sized timber wolf is the unani- 
mous statement of all who have seen 
him and these witnesses include several 
experienced wolf hunters. They de- 
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