Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1896-11-29
A REAL WOLF HUNT.
Thtrty Animals Cornered, Hut Broke u
 Line and Eseaped.

Thirty Animals Cornered, Hut Broke tho
 Line and Escaped.
 The timber wolf is very unsociable in his habits extremely suspicious of q cry other living thing and about as hard to ''get next to" as amy creature on earth. He always lies hidden in the depths of the swamp during the day and prowls around at night, seek ing something to devour. Like the In- dian he is, always hungry and will eat anything he can bite. If his courage was equal to his strength he would be extremely dangerous to hunt, but as he is afraid of his own shadow, except when ill large packs and mad with hunger, he is usually regarded with contempt by the woodsmen. However, a cornered wolf, like any other cornered coward, is dangerous customer to handle. And when he does fight he does so with desperate reclzlessness W hich has cost many a good dog his life. And then he dies game-at last. He will die under the teeth of the dogs With never a whimper, and, as general thing, with his mouth full of his civil ized relatives.
 But to our hunt. We started Christi mas. eve, taking every man who could get away and about 10 dogs, more or less, of every breed known to men, from bloodhound to terrier. Among our dogs were five or six bulldogs and bull terriers, which would have better been left behind, as having far more zeal than discretion. We reached Sut- tons ranch about midnight, and when the first fair gray streaks of dawn ap- peared had formed q cordon around a tadnarac swamp, which we intended to drive, and in which we could hear the wolves bowling as if there were a million of them.
 But wolves, like the frogs of the cam paign chestnut, make far more noise than their number warrants. We had been reenforced by all the farmers in tho neighborhood, the crews of two lumber camps near by and a dozen of Indians, who joined us without the formality of waiting for an invitation, probably in the hope that some of us might get lost and they get the job of finding US. At the signal of three gunshots from different borders of the swamp, we started to drive it.
 We closed in as uniformly as possi- ble, intending to drive our prey to the center of the swamp, where they were certain to make a break for liberty and then the fun would come in. It came all right enough. We must have inclosed 30 of the wolves in our ring, and when they made adesperate charge to get through, the scene was simply beyond description. The air was full of lead, whirling snow. dogs, rabbits and wolves. Every man simply fired as fast as he could pull the trigger and at anything that .lidn't look like man, hoping it might prove a wolf, but willing to take liberal chances which willingness may account for the fact that we bagged as many dogs sss wolves. There was about five minutes Of the worst confusion you ever saw. and then things began to quiet Gown a little and we could get an idea of where we were at" The wolves had broken the line and escaped, with the exception of, eight-that was certain al all events As many of our dogs had gone hence, having intercepted lead intended for wolves, or, it might be, in the turmoil, on general princi- pies. Five dogs had stuck to the wolves trail and probably have been taken into the lupine tribe, for they never came back Minneapolis Journal.
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