The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-02-20
SHOOTING WOLVES.

a Hound Frightened Into UseIessness-
Catching Deer In . Bear Trap.
On bitter cold night In January,
1910, said an aged Lehigh wOOdman re-
Gently, heard one of my hounds bel
lowing around the outside of the house
as though something was chasing it
then lived in the old road that ran
through the woods from Tobyhanna
Mills to Moscow, right whore the
Drinker Turnpike now is, and there
were good many wolves in this region
then. 1t was a moonlight night, and
jumped from the bed and looked out OF
the window to see what the hound was
yelping for. Two wolves were chasing
It round and round the house as tight as
they could leg it, but the hound was
swifter on foot than they were, and 1T
managed to keep a few feet ahead of
them at each turn. The wolves didn't
bark once, but their tongues hung out,
and they acted as if they had run a long
distance. 1 had two loaded muskets in
the house, and I placed one of them in
the corner by the door, cooked the other
and opened the door a few inches to get
shot at the wolves as they came around
in front of the house. The frightened
hound saw the crack in the door, dashed
into it, threw the door wide open and
knocked me off my feet. Both wolves
rushed IN, and the hound leaped upon
the bed, that stood in a recess. The
wolves hesitated when they got to the
side of the bed, and I shut the door in a
hurry, banged away at one of the
wolves and shot it in the head, killing
it instantly Then grabbed the other
znuslxet, and the second wolf made
spring for the window. It knocked out
three or four panes of glass but it
didn't break the sash. and it fell back
ward, gathered itself up and sPrang
again BY that time I was ready to
shoot, and I bored a hole through the
VOLTS heart just as the besest struck the
window. The hound hadn't been hurt
at al, but the wolves had scared it 50
that 1t wasn't worth copper for hunt
ing purposes after that night.
One October set a bear trap in tine
woods, about half a Wiile north OF Che
Lehigh Falls. The next morning t5he
trap was gone, and Che iron hooks on
the. end 81 the drag made a trail toward
the Lehigh river. L followed the trail
over the&dry, bare ground until it struck
a moist bit of earth, where I saHv the
prints cof a deer's hoofs in the soil.
There Were no bsar tracks anywhere
around there, and made up my mind
that "a deer had got caught in taso trap
In soEae unaccOunTable way. So Z fol-
lowed the trail, and hadn't gore many
rods before heard a deer blea6ilg like
every thing in tke thick bushes, some
distance ahead II hurried forward to-
vVVafG the stream, and in few minutes
came in sight az a large buck that had
sgO64angled up Ezl a thick cIumP of sap
ings. He w@s bleating b0Eh and
HOrncing hard to get fuess, and
saw at oSonce the osmse of
sEis suffering A big cataEn0unt was
tearing at the bucks right saSGile, and
10 had already gnawed a hole GE$the ham
as large as my two hands. UEae buck
couldn't defend himself with ms horns,
and the eatamDunt seemed @OkznOw it,
Scr it kept teaning away at the bleeding
3esh. I have t4EilIed more than hun
ldred catamO1h1ts and wildcats in this
section, but E.CEan't recall the time when
pulled the trigger with SO Enuah salts
faction as Gid when 1 fired at that
EtlOodthirsty creature. strdf ched it
cut with a .buiact, and then de- ded up
and put an sd to the bucks misery.
he had steppea into the tnaPN7ith his
Reft fore footsEGnd the jaws E1atScrushed
che bone oflkSB leg. Ia trying; TO leap
through the UHiiicllet the bucks antlers
caught in SoEaS. linn BIS, and the tap and
drag had pulled the poor beast down, sc
that he was enable to back rgzo or &c
ahead 1t wAE1then that the &c vvarCly
oatamount, sch knew betberElhan to
tackle a sound Ibuck, bounced upon him
and began to tear his flesh 1t ~-as the
only deer that Fever knew cd getting
caught in a boa trap."-N y a tblIne,
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