Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1863-01-08

tude for life"
"Shall not be our fault if he escapes"
said L; and with hurried adieu to our
hospitahle entertainer, we once more push
ed on,
1t is unnecessary to enter into the de-
tails of that days pursuit The trail
led to the sumit of high range of hills,
and then kept along the brow of the ridge
for five or six miles, and diagonally de-
scended the same side we had gone up,
hearing off in broad circuit toward the
point from which we started. When the
sun again set, we reckoned our days tramp
: at not less than from thirty five to forty
miles, and yet, so far, we had not even
caught glimpse of the wolf.
We staid at another farm house that
night, took another rubbing down with
cold water, and rise the next morning as
fresh as ever The weather still contin-
ued cold and the tracking good-but there
were some indications that a thaw would
shortly take place, which made us very
anxious to get sight Of the beast. We
found where he had lain down, about a
mile from where we had stopped the night
before, and another place about six miles
from that, which showed that he was get
ting weary himself, and this encouraged
us to renew our exertions. About noon
of this, the third day, having ascended a
high hill, we got our first view of him,
crossing an open valley on the other side,
and we ran down the descent with loud
|, shouts, the dogs adding fine chorus
The wolf now made his way to steep
and rocky mountain, up which we climed
, slowly and with great difficulty, reaching
the summit about half an hour before sun
r set. But, joyful to discover or long
' journey was now at an end-for we traced
the beast to cave among the rocks, in
which, wearied and alarmed at the steady
G pursuit. he had taken refuge, never more,
q as we were both resolved, to come forth
alive.
t The mouth of this cave-or rather den,
! as it seemed more appropriate to term it
! would only admit us on our hands and
: knees and that it ran far back into the
e bowels of the earth we could tell by the
|. baying of the dogs, which ventured in as
n close to their enemy as prudence would
n allow. But how were we to destroy the
Y beast Should we block up the hole and
l. starve him out 3? build fire inside and
smoke him out or venture in and shoot
p him where he was? The first would take
e more time to accomplish than we cared tc
It spare, as we might have to remain on the
watch several days; the second we might
n not be able to succeed in at all +; and the
third of course, would be attended with
d more or less peril.
e After taking everything into considera
ton, however, we decided upon the last
Y and not to loose any time we set about il
- at once We had some trouble in collect
J. ing fuel enough to last us through the
night-for our plan would require us tc
h remain on the mountain till morning
IS but before it became dark we had got to
gether sufficient for respectable fire, al
d also few pine knots to serve us for torches
e Then we started our fire near the mouth
It of the cave, and made our supper on thu
J. remains of the lunch we had taken with
a us in the morning; after which we look
e ed carefully to our weapons, lighted ou1
torches, and began our internal explora
IL tious.
p As the dogs still kept up their barking
t, we could safely advance without any fea
d of disagrceable surprise; and 50 WI
E. crept along through the narrow, zig-zal
Is tunnel, with only the caution of looking
h carefully to the ground over which W
re moved, lest we might get sudden plung
n into some pit or chasm. In this name
ir we carefully worked our way back for som
lie three or four hundred feet, when we cam
a. to place something like small apart
n- ment, where we could stand upright. Her
d. we found the dogs, collected around sor
10 of hole in one corner, into which the vol
y had crowded himself back some fifteen O
a. twenty feet, facing his tormentors, whicl