Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1874-09-30
Great Wolf Hunt at Seymour Lake.
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Great VOL Hunt al seymour FaAe.
BY FRANKLIN IL. GAGU.
SEYMOUR Lake is in the town of Morgan.
Vermont Encirclcl hy @reon hills. there
is not a more beautiful body of water in
New England 1t j. some ten miles from
Island Pond I station on the Gran Trunk
railroad.
Forty wears ago an unhroken wilderness
EXTENDED from this lake hundreds OF miles
to the Gulf of >t. Lawrence. On the south
and west sides of the lakes were ~cVera ,
farms. which had been under cultivation
ten OF fifteen years.
think it was the autumn of lNi1 or (
1858 that the bear, AMI wolves "verrum
this great region of wilderness in such /
numbers that they ate up all the natural
supplies. and (a> the Saxon phrase l~)
got starved ont. Necessity then drove
them towards the inhabited portion, of thr
country. and the farm wards of settlers on
the bor,l ,lrr~ of the wilderness suffered sd
" from their rlvarr~.
Live stock were carefully hrrdrl n
ni"ht. but in spite of all precautions tn"
wild beasts. fierce with hunger. Wouid
sometime, plumber the folds and barns.
On, night. early in Dttohrr, Il farmer
living near thr lake WAS much disturbed
hv the. continual huWlmw of wolves IN tn"
surrounding forest. He had shut his
sheep and cattle in tine barn and believed
them to hc perfectly safe. But >"m"tim"
near midnight he WAS aroused ont 81 HI
>I'tp 'E Il 3'.I' "l'''' 't '' i.
uIt0>'H ~ l''N ny IT. co.,
the wolves had broken into the burn. Killed
several 7h'' r. '"'' '"'
away
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SAFETY "l inc ''>. ~ ~ ,';,.I ~.
secured 10y A''PIl@ ""'''' '' ''''' ''''''.
OF II" nl-"',
" soon ~ Gay MN. al ~, I..'.
several h'IIh'o'~ '.''' ''' a.
towns - r"I't' 'l' ia nv i'' i -''''''
wolf hunt one went '' / - Il u '>-' -'''i'
one 70 west nt' = o'''I' ''ii'' NJ,
"f the towns "' >'''i'' l''' ~ ''''.
beng mounted 'i -''.' ''''' ''',
hui ioh- III ~l' "t,'- ''' .'','
All lH' -'''l,lo j" III 0'' ''''''
were r'"~'d'
Al ui'' tlli' Wa '"'H '"''''' ''''
NY la,i'r WAS INiHI "'''t 'I '"''
N'>t "' vi
bright morning W!'.lt Il my" "'0"'' "l' ''
my father d'pf' l'.l rs "h'' y. pc '''I,
= IN" wolves h."i M' 'r' ;AI h'I.i'" ~ 4"
the tohl'9hptl'd "''I nun - "',''.
4 were all to hcr'' h' ,a"'- i. '!'' NOUS
/ where the sheep h.tl h''h h!'''. lH'i
{ he hl>t"nrd away IN I'i'st "l "''i'F~-
II My father And oId"f nI"lh'r "rr% ""' y
h''' my H''.l' N.i' ''''' ''.', =
Il business IN my father 'o>''i'r' {" era" ''
= ." to tliH hun'' ana ''N' me ''l nun y
g course was ta@'r |" 20 IlN NJ H'N'
l. seen anything OF the A'hd.
II 1t WIS three mics I" tiie m'rlIhG Pi3V'
'' but We were not ,"n@ "'Ihin@ 'h' 'H~3 3'f','
' though some "i 'h' way NY """'-ii u
fields and forest W" l"umI m"T" thah
hundred men :M" h'H- ">~'lli"i''' "li
others All the while Afrl\Ih-- some "I III
men We're armed VITA GunS' some WI
rifles. others carried Only l"'iI"'N>' "i
Il several boys h'' 'il l"r'--
= The men were discussing ''l' pan
: proceeding, and choosing officers 10 'Nf''
d the hunt 'ht corporal "'> HI'''C'.l
lr every ten men. ana Il hl'T~li;'l I'i 'o"I
lc five assistants Wa |" f;'N' '"c 2''''''
n command
n Seymour Lake l. Il lI't'c more 'll'h t.
n miles lonT. / he southern sh"ft run"
V nearly Il straight Inc ne "''N'' wen
is supposed to be orrrrttI some WH'r' h'
1T tween 'l,e ~. '',1 In' t ,,
1t The plan was t" extend me "' me
OF east and west III curve rom ON, emu