Herald of the times. [volume] (Newport, R.I.) 1830-1846, 1840-01-09

Il "A YOUNG PUTNAM.-On the morning
of the Sd inst, Alfred Brunson Clark
eleven years old, grand son of the Rev.
II A. Brunson, went out on the Prairie (du
Il Chen, to hunt for cows. He had four
dogs with him, and seeing two wolves
he hlssed them on, and gave chase. One
of the wolves was pursued by the dogs,
to rock on the side Of the bluff, some
40 feet up the steep acclivity, where
he took refuge in crevice, whence
the dogs could not hurt him. The lad
having followed close upon the dogs,
and seeing the situation Of tho wolf, and
unwilling to lose the game, tied his
horse to a tree, and by the aid Of
the bushes clambcred up the steep hill
side to a shelf of the rock, on which
the wolf travelled to his retreat. One
end of this shelf came to the ground,
while the o'hcr, 10 or l2 feet distant,
is or 10 feet from it. The shelf is
about - or ID inches wide, and over il
hangs projection like a cornice, the
space between the shelf and projection
being only about l3 inches. On this
shelfthe boy crawled on his hands and
knees to the crevice in which the wolf
had slowed himself away, and finding
his tail banging out, and having no wea-
pom whatever to kill him with, he laid
hold Of the tail and pulled him back
AS soon as he could, the wolf turned |
and snapped at his hand: to avoid which
the boy tumbed him off the shelf: when !
the dogs seized him ere he reached the
ground, and a tumbling, rolling over
fight ensued to the bottom of the hill.-H
The boy, in the mean time, backed out
Of his dangerous position till he could
nearly reach the ground with his hands
holding the edge Of the shelf, when he
fell, feet foremost, and hurried down to
the place Of slaughter. When he
reached the dogs, the wolf was not quite
dead, and to aid in the matter, he laid |
his head upon n rock, and with a club 4
finished the work of death upon his
prey.
The next thing was to get him home
as trophy Of his victory. The wolf
was one of the largest and latest kind |
of prairie wolves, and too heavy for !
lad OF his size to place upon the horse,
but he overcome this difficulty, succeed
ed in placing his booty across the horse;
and mounting behind it, rode home in
as much triumph as the elder Putnam
did with the wolf he killed in her den.
If Putnam's wolf was the largest and
most difficult to be got at, his age, and
his being armed for the fight, gave him
an advantage over lad Of | | years Of
age, and without weapons, which would
probably render the case very nearly
parallel Gaiena Gazeiie.
PRINrER's PRovERBs.--Pay thou thy prin- II
ter In the day tbou owcst him, that tho evil
lay may be afar of. lest the good man Of the
aw sending thee thy bil!-GREETING. II
Remember him Of tho quill, and the little
devils around him; and, when thou weddest
hy daughter to tho man Of her choice, send
hou unto him bountful slice of the bridal
loaf.
Borrow not that for which thy neiphbor
hath paid, but ~ and buy for thysalf of him
hath TO sell.
Thou shalt not read thy neighbors paper,
nor molcst him in his peaceful possession off
L, lest thou stand condemned in the sight ofIl
him who drives the quill, and thy character
~ awked about by poor children.