Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1861-05-30

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tells of Putnam and the wolf.
An old wolf had been known to make fire..
qucnt visits and soiourns in Plaiulield ever since
the first settler came into the town. This wolf
was known by the large tracks he made and
he in connection with similar villains, had de-
stroycd sheep and lambs to great number for
those times, and KimbaG and other hunters had
resolved to destroy the volt, cost what it would
The hunters with thei hounds had followed
the wolf into Vermont, towards the mountains,
but on account of the depth of snow they were
obliged to return. But the wolf got back as
soon as the hunters, and that night killed a
young COW, the favore property of the Kim
ball family, upon which they were depending
for their winters supply of sweet milk. This
was a severe loss, and The first sight of the mur-
dered animal to our hero was anything but
pleasant. As the COW had been killed near
morning, and the wolves had left without their
meal of flesh and blood, he concluded to try
again his steel trap. They were cautiously and
ingoniously set, and he waited the result. The
next morning on visiting that part of the farm,
he discovered that the yere!able wolf was in the
trap, and was held by two toes. The wolf
could have pulled away and left his toes in the
trap and then escaped to the woods. The rife
was left at the house, and he dared not go home,
lest the wolf should escape during his absence
II he made an attack with club he would at
the first blow, perhaps slightly wounded, pull
away and be off. Kimba believed that man
had dominion over the beasts of the field and
the birds of the air, and concluded to try his
art in that direction. He came up to the wolf
slowly, looking him steadily in the face. The
VOLTS gaze was averted, and he gradually drop
ped his ears, shut his eyes and laid down close
to the ground. Kimball approached the wolf,
and put the rope which he held in his hand
around the VOLTS head, and adjusted it about
his neck in way not to be- got off. He then
passed the other end OF the rope under the limb
of tree lying just by, making him secure.
He then stepped upon the springs OF the trap
and bore them down, and drew the foot above
the knee.
| The rope was now united from the tree and
the wolf was set under quick march for home.
The family were in waiting for the father to
come to his morning meal, when he neared
his habitation, leading this fierce denizen of the
forest.
The news of the victory spread far around
the country, and old and Young came to see the
live wolf Some dealt blows with their whips
he was set upon by troop of dogs; but one
hunter rather than see the cruelty, dispatched
him with his rifle. Every one came up to him
then without fear, and with his well worn tusks
J lne elongated SOleS OF MS lecli HIS SIlLIlN dp-
pearance, they gave it as their opinion that this
was the old offender, and no other than The
mate to the wolf which Israel Putnam shot in
the den.
With Kimball to determine was to accom-
plish, believing that with man almost all things
were possible.
His daring spirit was inherited by his chill
dren. The next morning after the wolf was
taken, his daughter, of the tender age of six
teen, was sent to a neighbor's of an errand a
sundOwn, and passing over the bridge through
the forrest, she met in the path huge bacl
bear. who seemed but little inclined to leav'
the road. But our heroine walked on towards
the bear, motoning him with her hand and
clear voice to be away. The bear ran up a mapl
tree near by, she went up to the tree, PLACED
her mantila about it, attached it to the rougl
bark, and left her bonnet also to keep old Brui
up. She then ran after her father. He 500
came-anh nj the frst fire the bear fell thrOug
the branches mortalr wouuuvu.
KimbaR at the age Of forty commenced plant
ing fruit trees and vines. One of his friend
advised him not to transplant, as he could no
probably live to eat the fruit Said he, II will
set out my orchard, and will eat forty years.
1t came to bearing in five years and the her
lived near a hundred, and sat under his ow
vine and fig tree-told the story of the danger
of the first settlement of New Hampshire i
his defiant manner and feasted with his friend
and ueighbors on the rich viands for more tha
half a century.