The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1897-09-30
"A WOLF HUNT.
Fine Days spcrt-Two wolves and
Deer aS Trophicn.
IN tho E,titor ~ THE poes


Fine Days spcrt-Two wolves and
Deer a~ Trophica.
To the Editor OF The Post
Liverpool, Texas. September s7.---Just
about sun up ono morning you could sec
small troops Of riders coming from every
direction. and about o'clock our crowd had
gathered. II consisted Of nineteen men and
boys mounted on fleet ponies, four gray
hounds and two common hounds. We were
armed with rifles. pistcfs and ropes, and
we were ready to take In anything that
got up before us.
The territory that VIC hunted In lies
along the bay between Chocolate and Aus
tin hayous and lie known as Hoskins paa-
,ure or Chocolate Cove, Whom wc. COM
menced our drive we struck out across tho
prairie In squads OF three and four for
five miles and rode toward the bay We
had no, been riding long when a squad on
the right wing started wolf There was
some fast riding for few minutes and the
wolf was circied ana the grcyhounds caught
him and soon had him stretched on the
grass. We soon had his scalp of and
started again. About 10 o'clock the boys
on the left side saw some dark objects way
over on the right, aud they knew that 1t
was come Of the boys In hot chase after
something. for the objects were moving
along pretty fast. Some OF the boys started
1 over on that side to help them and found
| them after u wild cat. but no was In a flat
along Austin bayou, and It was full OF
PUSHES three or four feet high and they
could not rout him. 80 they had to lot him
so. II was now getting along toward din
ner time. SO wo nll met on a little bayou.
| ate our dinner and rested for an hour or
SO. Then we strung out again, some going
along the bay shore and others out In the
prairie and rode In a northern direction,
| There is largo mound somewhere near
the center OF the cove, and when we left
for our evenings drive some OF us won't
over II. II Ia 100 feet above the surround
Ing country and from the top OF this
mound YOU can sec the country for miles
around.
After we had been riding about nm hour
the crowd along the bay jumped two wolves
and started them zip Chocolate bayou right
In front OF some OF us. They had to pass
near a rush fiat. and one Of them ran into
II and got away, as the flat was too bpggy
TO ride into, Tho other wolf came on up
the bayou, and ono of the men on tho
upper end of the line saw him coming and
started to head him OF. He was pretty
close TO the wolf when 1t paesed him. 80 he
drew HIS pistol and In few shota had him
| stretched on the prairie. II was tho largest
of the kind ever killed in these parts.
| We had not more than got The wolf
| scalpcd when we jumped come deer near
| the bank of Chocolate bayou. They ran
across toward Austin bayou. and the boys
on that side gave them chase and turned
them back toward Chocolate. They fol-
! lowed the pasture fence nearly To the
bayou. when one OF the boys on the Chocoe
| lato side rode in ahead OF them and turned
them down the bayou. Three OF the crowd
I...1.a
them and when they came by they started
after them and kept pretty close 10 them.
! for they had run about eight miles and
| were getting tired. We followed them
| about mile, when We came to n small
| bayou about eighteen feet wide. All OF the
deer jumped this except one and he jumped
| in the water. One of tho boys made bir
horse Jump the bayou. and as we had the
deer bemmed In. we took down our ropes
and soon had him roped aud out on the
| bank. One OF the men who was with US
when the deer jumped in the bayou had his
dog With him. The dog jumped In after
the deer and swan right behind him, and
| II tickIed tho man SO that he did not do
anything but Jump up and down and clap
his hands and laugh. by the time I'VE had
the deer on the bank some Of tho other
| boys had come up and we soon had his
throat cut and had him tied behind one OF
the boys saddles and started for home.
one OF the men cut the deere iiver out
and took II home and told his wife that Il
was VOLTS liver and he wanted her TO cook
1t for him. She protested and said that she
could smell tho dog on II. but after little
coaying he got her TO cook 1t and nut II
on the table, After he had eaten NIL that
he wanted he told them what It was. and
the dog smell that II had soon left IT, The
deer was taken to the home Of ono OF the
crowd and divided and there was plenty
for all
SO our day Of sport was ended and all
arc wanting to have another hunt some
time In the near future Sport.