The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1873-05-17
That Rutland Wolf,
lives.

NJ. B,emW:-All who read the FREE TRADEE
remember having seen, a few weeks ago, an
account of AN exciting wolf chase" BY the h,:.
tiers Of Rutland, in which the wolf was driven
ninety miles from his headquarters. The hounds
and hunters, by that time, being well jaded, con
cludcd TO leave him to his fate. The wolf not
feeling any the worse for the exercise, embraced
the opportunity, while the hunters were at sup
| per- TO return and take, as usual, for his supper
| a fat goose from his fav0rite flock. Mr.. Grove
next morning notified the hunters OF the depre-
dation committed on his property the previous
evening They were very much surprised, as
they imagined the wolf to be miles away and
were expecting the congratulations of their
lneighbors for having driven him out of the coun-
| try This audacious act rather "riled" the boys,
and after holding a council of war they concu-
ded to let the wolf rest until they sent east and
imported some more hounds as they only had
about score, thinking perhaps they could over.
power him by numbers if they could not out-run
him. The blOoded CANNES finally arrived, and a
hunt was organized by the Parr, Millikcn, Klcibcr
and Grove boys for the purpose of discriminating
the fcrocous beast. The day arrived and every.
thing was lovely. The boys were promptly on
hand with "mongrel, puppy, whelp and hound
and eur of low degree" The wolf was discover.
! ed in ncighboring corn field. He looked fear.
iul. council Of war was held to determine the
best "odas opcrdHdi. II was unanimously decided
TO take another breakfast and feed the horses
and dogs preparatory to starting This having
| Oeeh accomplished satisfactorily an advance was
made upon the wolf llorscmcn dogs and all
marched up within few rods Of him, when the
word was given and the dogs were uncou
piled and shown the wolf, but somehow tbe dogs
could not see him. and ran the other WA, Nam.
time the "whooping and scking" Of dogs and
the blast of horns had alarmed the wolf who
started OFF ut a moderate gait The hounds were
rallied as quickly as possible and shown the
track but they took the back track and went Il,
though they were sent for; but this was only for
the purpose of getting running start as they
had not gone far until, by the persuasion of the
boys, they changed their course and wen, IN,
other way at the top of their speed, and then
there was music in the air" but it was with diff.
Guilty that il could Dee heard, on account Of the
unearthly yelping Of the dcmoralizcd CANNES.
This had the desired effect rs the wolf ait outr
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horscmen hard behind, and the way the mud flew
was not slow. They ran in circle, and il was
nip and tuck with them, sometimes the wolf was
ahead and at other times the dogs. This state of
things lasted but a short time, when the dogs
came back and no amount Of persuasion could
induce them to go again. The chase had owl
IDENTITY been abandoned by mutual consent be-
tween the dogs and wolf. In the afternoon
the wolf sauntered out in field and located him.
self in slightly place TO make observations Of
the neighboring fiocks and herds preparatory to
his Nocturnal operations, where he was discovered
by a couple Of daring sportsmeu, who not haying
much faith in hounds hitched up a team and
took their guns, thinking 70 drive down and dis
patch him at once. They drove up within a few
yards Of the wolf and deliberately shot-at him.
This so frightened the poor brute that he irotted
of some ten or fifteen rods ond went 10 digging
for mice; the boys becoming exasperated at his
coolnrss, drove up TO him again aud poured
another yoley into him from their deadly wea.