Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-10-02

until dark, when the neighborhood was
aroused, and thorough hunt was made
through the woods, and over pasture
in which was cross bull. until after
midnight. In the morning search was
resumed, but Mr.. COnnerly. after keep
ing the little tramp over night, took him
home and relieved the parents of their
great anxiety.
MORGAN.
EARLY HISTORY OF MORGAN.-
In the fall of 1888, the wolves were
making sad havoc among the sheep in
the neighborhoOd of Elon Hill On a
certain night their bowling was heard
on the top of the hill by the surround
ing inhabitants. Having ascertained
their locality, they lost no time in COM
municating the intelligence throughout
this and the adjacent towns. The next
morning nearly two hundred people were
seen entering the woods that surrounded
the hill.
At certain point on the shore of the
lake, there is narrow plat of land
something in the form of heater. hem
med in by an almost perpendicular cliff
rising from the waters edge to a great
height At this point it was arranged
to close up the ring, and having accom-
plished their design in the latter part of
the day, the report of their firearms
told that their labor had not been in
vain Soon were the boys seen rushing
from the thicket, triumphantly bearing
the trophies of their days sport. On
that day this gang of troublesome ma
RAIDERS was made less by three.
Being known that some of the marauders
had escaped. and thinking probably that
they would return in search of Their
companions, = watch was kept up Tho
night. At late hour the bowling wa:
heard in the same place as before. Mes
sengers were Immediately dispatched il
all directions. where they found the PEG
pie everywhere ready to turn out in pur
suit of the common enemy.
Each vale and each sequestered glen
Mustered its little horde of men;
From the gray sire whose trembling hant
Could scarcely buckle on his brand,
To the raw boy whose shaft and bow
: We're yet scarce terror to the crow"
At an early hour in the morning NOR
than three hundred persons Gncludin
? men and boys were entering the fOres
q at different points, as on the previou
. day and before night two more of tn
wolves were killed on the same spot a
. the others. But the big dog, prObabl
= the father Of the gang. mustered courag
to pass round the point through the sha
low water, and took shelter in the ma
row strip of second growth bushes ths
bordered the shore. But he was see
and headed BY some who were on tt
watch in the open land. and kept in h
covert till the company came up, whe
he was soon routed and shot.
Thus the gang was efectually broke
up and the innocent sheep had rest.
IL short time after, from the sale of tt
81 skins and the government bounty, eaC
man and boy was little more than ha
is dollar richer for his two days advel
L. ture.
Is The smaller kinds of wild animal
valued and sought for their furs, suG
D. as sable, otter. musk-rat and mink. we
a never known to be very plenty, thong
be some of the two last named are occasio
ally taken. even now. Foxes still abouI
is lin many instances to the great ammo
$ ance of the poultry and they, on the
m part. are sometimes sadly annoyed
70 the traps and hounds of the hunters