Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1892-04-30
CHASED BY THE WOLVES.
THE EXPERIENCES OF A VEN
TuRESoME BOY.
Perlious Adventures in . Foress-Tn the
wilds OF PeansylvAnia In the
Winter OF Issl-A Provi-
dental Rescue.

killed, = said Harrison Phillips of the
Pocono Mountains ''was In the win
ter Of 1881. when | was rs years old.
la those days we had TO get u oxen
shod in South Canaan. sixteen miles
from where we lived and in February
OF that year my father ant me over
there with q yoke Of four-year. old
steers A long thaw had taken the
snow of, and all the frost out Of the
ground. and the weather was much
like early April when | started for
South Canaan at daylight 1t took
me till IL o'clock to get there and
when the blacksmith had finished
shoeing the oxen it was 4 in the after
noon.
"a regular March suow-storm had
sprung up from the Northwest by the
time | was ready to start for home.
and | saw that l was going to have a
tough trip OF it il the storm continued
as violent as it had set in. But the
moon was about full. and | calculated
that | wouldn't get caught out in
pitch darkness even IL tho snow
squall kept up. | had to drive the
steers through thick woods nearly all
the way, and. as wolves were numer-
Gus all through this region at that
time. | felt a little ticklish about my
night end of the journey homeward
II was SHUTDOWN when 1 entered the
first long stretch OF woods on my way
to the Dutch Flats and the snow was
then falling so fast and in such big
flakes that il almost blinded me.
A terrific gale was blowing. but |
j was going in the same direction hat
i the wind was and / felt somewhat en-
couraged on that account The storm
1 increased in violence and the wind
/. fairly howled through the forest rs ]
a directed the steers across the trait,
and | remember that l felt every min
ute as though great trees were going
; to fall and crush me. | had been
a bit frightened in the woods before
for | had been raised In the forest
!. but / own up that / was badly scared
that night. When l reached Dutch
Il Flats a woodman coaxed me TO put up
i Tor the night. / had a good notion 10
q do 80. but | knew that my folks would
le worry about me and probably sit ur
all night waiting for me, and so
.e plodded through the snow at the head
il Of the neat steer. and o passed
Promised Land pond. Then / struck
across the hill to the head OF the
- Buckhill creek. and as | was leading
ne the steers along the trail down the
n mountain side the snow stopped fall
n ing, the clouds broke up and occasional
gIimpses Of the moon made nus feel a
good sight better than | had for 1
couple Of hours
at My folks reckoued in the morning
that | would be bone by dark. | wai
six miles from home when the moor
id came out and il was all Of three hour,
AL after nightfall. but | felt all right ate
e. the binding snow ceased, although
ew the wind was blowing hard. All a
nix once | heard a noise in the dcns
woods some distance behind me, and
aid halted the steers and listened. VIVA
heard made me shiver. for II was tn
"a. bowling Of a pack OF wolves and
quickly saw that the bloodthirst,
me brutes were running down the ira
al directly toward me. There were q
or least a dozen in the pack. and / ID
nd SANITY realized that they gere Der
on on attacking me. The winter ha
been uncommonly severe up to IN
time OF the thaw. and in a twinklin
too I recalled the fact that the wolves ha
ave slaughtered a good many domestic al
God finals in the Pocono mountains With
en- a few weeks. / put the whip to th
,ars steers and in a moment | had the
MIS- going al a brisk trot behind me. III
bowling pack rushed down the hi
/, TO like a lot OF fends. and before | ha
gone an eighth OF a mile further Il
,r. hungry brutes were swapping al
Il IL snarling at the heels OF the steer
sis The steers Immediately began
her plunge and below, and the wolves D
all, their leg until they started on the r.
ack and came near trampling me und
their hoofs.
try Seeing that the steers were ungo
title ernnble and that the wolves would X
me IL | got In their path, | threw u
Cad away, seized the yoke of tho ne
rs!" steer and jumped astr1de OF his nee
We The steers kept the trail and ran Ill
wild cattle. believing at every boun
!, the and I had all I could do TO keep fro
being hurled headlong over the ne
|, on ones horns. / could tell from {
easy bowling OF the wolves that they VIZ
and close at the heels OF the runaw
HOW 5teers' Oug 4 h1U nv Shatoo W ~
,k a around. / expected at every seco
arm that the steers would sheer on trt
ting the trail and bring up against !
trees. but scared as they were tn
said kept in 1t until we had led the vol
d the all OF Two miles down the Bucki
, for creek.
The steers painted in the frosty
Mrs. and the wolves continued 10 no.
BY that time all the clouds had dis
/, old peared, and the moon shown so bril-
chat | could see ahead in the wor
vel quite a distance.
,roud Suddenly / heard some one sho
and the next moment ! saw three n
idred standing at the side OF tho trail sevt
sol rods head. Before | realized this