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wolf had whelps in there. George said
that we had better get axes, and BY cut
ting and dragging away the old stuff
work into the den. But Willis said
"No, boys; / believe the jam will burn
If once we can get fire into 1t and well
going, and we can roast the old thie1
out.",
AL then got some chips and splints
which he tuckea into the further end Of
thejam, where it was dryest, and set them
on fire with matches that he had brought
along. The fire was some time in start.
ing, ,butafter while the old stuff gotwell
warmed up, and then it began to take
| flame and roar.
'sCapital! Well soon have our game
and roasted, too!'' shouted Willis.
And it seemed as if the flames roared
and began to wrap the whole great pile
of dritt-that we had got the old ''tor.
ment into limbo at last, and stood a
chance of not only burning her 'shouse'
over her head, but of burning her up with
it. We could hear her growing at The
| fire. But she was tough and willy, and
not disposed to give in without a savage
fight for life.
Just as the fire seemed to enwrap the
whole jam, the wolf made swift bolt
out through the blaze, and, all singed and
sparkling with fire, flew at Old jim like
mad hyena.
Although we were on the lookout, we
we're not quite prepared for so sudden a
spring as the old beast had made.
"Look out!" shrieked Al. s'Shoot
shoot!"
George tired-Wilts fired-Al slung the
axe, andj Ned and were both cooking
our guns-trying to get aim.
But the savage brute flew from jim
across the brook towards Al. He ran up
the side of the gully, shouting, "Shoot
shoot her!"
No wonder he ran, for she was the
ugliest-looking thing I ever saw.
She got past us all, and secured away
down the hollow. The dogs started after
her, at full cry, down the gully, of
through the woods to the northeast.
We rallied, too, loaded up again, and fol
lowed for mile or more. Then we lost
them from hearing altogether, and, being
now pretty tired and hungry, we went
home.
But just as George and AL and were
finishing most hearty meal, Ned came
running to the house to say that the
hounds had come around from the north.
west, within hearing again. We went
into the yard. They seemed not more
than two miles off, going in full cry to-
wards the '.pond woods.''
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Guns were brought out in hot haste,
and away we went. But after running a
mile or two we lost sound of the dogs
and it was not till near four o'clock that
they came round from the south end OF
the pond. Not many minutes after that
we heard the long howl of Old Jim. II
was down by the east shore of the pond,
| where a crag, called the ''overset," front
ed on the water.
Willis and George had already started to
go down there. The rest of us followed
them round the head of the pond and
down through the woods to the 'soverset.' u
George and Willis were at some distance
| ahead
The dogs were whining about the rock
There was great crevice, two or three
feet wide, between two huge rocks which
lay at the foot of the cliff. Upon these,
other great boulders had fallen down.
The crevice looked like the mouth of a
den.
s'The old brute is in there, sure enough y
Willis said. "How I wish had bucket
of nitro -glycerine to tuck in after her!'
Finally, we concluded to set our guns
the whole of them-s spring gun fashion,
pointing into the crevice.
Ned went up to house about half a
mile off and got some hemp twine. While
he was gone, the rest of US cut crotched
stakes to rest the guns in, and set them
in the ground around the hole. Five guns
were set pointing into the den.
When Ned came back with the tw1ne,
a perfect network Of lines was laid across
the mouth of the den; and each of these
cross-lines ran round stake to the trig-
gers of all the guns
It was nice job to fix them, and a
rather critical one when it came to put
ting the lines on the triggers. The guns
were then cooked. Each one had been
loaded as heavily as we dared to load
it.
By the time we got our guns set it was
fairly dark, and we went off home as fast
as we could.
Early next morning, before either
George or was up, a boy from the house
where we got the twine came in. The
family had heard the guns go off late in
the evening. AS soon as it was light
the boy had run down and looked ovel
the top Of the crag, and had seen the old
wolf down on the pebbles, "kicking," he
said.
We were soon out Of bed and down by
the crag. And, sure enough, the old pest
that had done 81 much mischief, Law
stretched out there, not s'kicking," but
stone dead.
| She had gone fifty feet or more from
the mouth Of her den, though both hel
fore-legs were broken by buck-shot and 8
bullet had traversed the whole length o1
her body. Three Of the guns had beer
discharged when she tripped the lines.
She was a great, bony, gaunt, long
beast, the very embodiment of rapacity
and fercencss. From MWzle to the tail
she measured but an inch short of five
feet We received a bounty of eight dol
lars on her scalp.
Noble Seats.
| Louis Blanc told the following in re-