Rocky Ford enterprise., 1893-12-28
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How He Nade Pront Ont Of Wolves
That Had freed Him.


That Had freed Him.
"I remember little brush had
with wolves in Northern Wisconsin
before the war;" said man Of tho
name OF Jones to q writer in Saxby's
Of the large timber variety. and. It
being hard winter. they were con-
stantly hungry. They were fierce
and dangerous, and would attack q
man even when there were no moro
than two or three OF them together.
"One day in January was Poing
from Ojibway City to Pomme de
Terre river on foot. accompanied
only by my dog. Bones was not q
dog that would ever go about the
country asking folks in his poor
dumb way. where he could ind large
pack OF wolves. When about fifteen
miles from Pomme de Terre / no
ticed that Bones was becoming un-
easy. Five minutes later observed
that he was wearing the hair on his
back pompadour. suspected wolves,
and was right They soon came
up, not fifty yards behind. There
was at least 100 of them-large.
gaunt, hungry. savage wolves
Their fierce howls reverberated
through the startled forests like the
diabolical shrieks OF frenzied de-
mons in torment I saw that hand
to-hand combat with them was out
OF the question. Flight was my only
hope. Picking up Bones by the nape
Of the neck, tucked him under my
arm and started.
"For forty minutes. gentlemen. /
ran like cat in q dog show. sup
posed covered ten miles. notwith-
standing that the snow was deep in
some places, and in others the under
brush interfered. The wolves kept
close behind. When I turned my
head could feel their hot, venomous
breath on my cheek. They leaped
up and uipped at the tail Of poor
Bones. which was waving and tossing
behind on the terrific wind which
my flight engendered. like a plume
of q knight of old going into battle.
Their howl, weird and hideous as
the sinking wall of 10000 lost souls,
shook the pine needles from the
trees and tore the nerves Of the un-
fortunate Bones in way which was
painful to zee.
"At the end OF the ton miles /
began to tire. A large spruce tree
stood in my path and climbed 1t.
Perching myself on q lower limb some
fifty feet from the ground and tying
Bones In place on another with q bit
Of string l looked down on the angry,
surging sea of wolves below. felt
safe and lit my pipe and gave my
dog ham bone which had in my
pocket But soon, to my surprise,
the wolves began most extraordinary
tactics-nothing less, gentlemen,
than gnawlng down the tree One
hundred sots of ravenous fangs tore
and bit the trunk. saw that the
tree could not stand half an hour
l knocked the ashes out OF my pipe
and began to look at the situation
seriously. noticed on the branches
about me chunks Of raw spruce gum
about the size Of my fist. Taking my
knife l prled one of and dropped It
to a wolf below. He snapped his
jaws upon 1t with famished greed
He never opened them again. the
resinous mass holding them firm as
vice.
"At the end OF twenty minutes /
had the jaws Of every wolf welded
together past all hope OF opening. I
then descended with Bones, who now
barked savagely and attacked the
wolves with great spirit With his
assistance drove the bafled, help
less creatures to Pomme de Terre
like flock Of sheep. There was at
that time $40 bounty on wolves. ~
rounded them up in the courthouse
yard and I drew $1,000 from the
county treasurer, after which I re-
paired to the Le Grande Monarque
hotel and ordered supper, not for
getting to bespeak the largest soup
bone in town for my dog. Ireturned
to Ojibway City the next day, but
saw no wolves"