Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-05
SHE VANQUISHED THE WOLF. Strategy Helps a Maine Woman Out ofa PeriIOus Predicament.
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Ofa PerfIous Predicament.
 From the Lewiston Journall
 One day Uncle Jonas's two cows disap- peared from the opening in the woods about his lonely home, and no traces of them could be gained Aunt Molly, as his wife was called, started to hunt them up next morning, as the men of the family were away. Leaving the children and go- ing in westerly direction, she wandered throughout the day in the dark, unbroken forests without mouthful to eat, except few spruce buds and dried berries, with an occasional handful of ground nuts, which grew in great abundance in the lowlands. The sun was fast sinking, when, to her great joy, she discovered the lost cows quietly grazing on a small grass plat near Crooked river, some four miles from home. With all possible haste she drove them along, hoping to reach home before dark, and as she had no guide, not even spotted | trees, she had to trust wholly to the instinct | of the beasts.
 Their course often seemed to her exactly | the opposite to right, still her practical i.nausladoe taught her it was best to le' \ them have their own way. When neal | what is now known as Pine House, on l ridge covered by a growth of gigantic pine both cows gave loud below, as if iron | fright and broke into furious gallop il the direction of home now half mile dis | tant Pausing to ascertain the cause oi | their fright she was confronted by wolf The wolf at once made a spring for hei face, no doubt intending to grab her throat With the skill and fury of an expert boxer | Aunt Molly dealt him stunning blow witf her brawny and hardened fist, which sen him back on his launches. Again anC again the starving brute went for he throat, but each time was met with bOtl fists and feet with sufficient force to senl him back several feet. Knowing it wa now life or death, the heroic woman fount herself fast growing weaker, while the at tacks of her savage adversary grew nor, fierce.
 Snatching her tattered shawl from he head, with a desperate leap she threw i over the head of the wolf with a dexterit, which was not only surprising to the wolf but herself also.
 This piece of strategy had the effect t bewilder the wolf. He leaped wildly about vainly endeavoring to rid himself of hi inconvenient headgear, while Molly lost n time in climbing to the lower branches of tree and out of harms reach. When tn wolf had rid himself of his temporar blindfold and sufficiently recovered hi equilibrium, seeing his intended victim b' yond his reach he at once set up the mo: demoniac showls of rage and disappoin ment, occasionally venting his spleen b furious attacks upon the trunk of the tn and tearing the rough bark with his lon crooked fangs.
 Here she remained until the return ( day, when the wolf slunk away in the d rection of the river. AS soon as sl thought him at safe distance Molly, nea ly furnishing and benumbed by cold hastei ! ed down and sped for home as fast as th crampled condition of her legs would pel init.
 She found the children half frightene out of their wits, as the arrival of of th COWS in so great agitation had given thel the idea that their mother had been d. | youred