Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-09-20
The Wolves
The Baraboos.
BY FRANKLIN wELLes cALk,Ns.

with wolves related in central Wis
consis is that of the two Barbours-
father and son-and "'Liph" Jones.
1t took place among the Big woods of
the Baraboo Bluffs. The Barbours
had cabin in the woods at that time,
and were making logs Of the great
white oak timber.
Heavy SHOWS fell in February and
about the first of March of that year,
and when there was no crust the chop
pers had often had to wade to their
knees to and from the bluff. Anxious
to get lot Of logs down to the river
in time to make raft for the spring
overflow, the choppers cleared wide
roadway, or rather rollway, down the
bluff. They began at the top at point
where great many of the logs al
ready cut could be "drifted" down
with ''handspikes' until they should
be at the brink of the descent, which
pitched off rather suddenly. From this
point the logs plunged and slid and
rolled some 300 yards or more down a
swift incline. lodging in bayou-like
depression, sort of elbow from the
river, at the foot of the bluff.
The stumps in the rollway We're cut
so close to the ground that they inter-
fered only when the snow was light
barking and sometimes splintering
log. A weeks rolling would clean off
moderately heavy snow, and when
the stumps showed too bumptiously,
oft -
work, and wait for fresh snowfall.
One evening at sunset, when the men
had Just finished sllidding the last log
up on the pyramid at the brink of the
bluff, Perry Barbour, a youth of II
years, suddenly rushed for the flint
tree. The others saw that Perry
1leant to shoot a yearlng fawn, which
was plunging in the snow not 20 yards
distant. 1t sank above it's knees at
every jump. and was nearly worn out
with running.
The boys shot killed it.
Good for you, Perry" 'Llph Jones
shouted for they needed fresh meat.
The words were hardly out of his
mouth when there was sudden burst
If yip-yip-yi-yi-ying, and the astonished
!oggers saw, coming over the rise of
the bluff, one. two. three. dozen. a
countless pack of big gray wolves run
ning labOriously. tongues lolling and
breath steaming. They were hot upon
the trail of the deer.
Perry stared at the lunging brutes an
instant, and then, dropping his gun.
ran to the fawn and siezed it by the
bind legs.
"Pm going to have this deer." he
shouted. 'Shoo! shoe. Hi-yi-yip." and
he hurried backward. dragging the ear
cass after him.
But the Dig brutes, emboldened by
their numbers and maddened by
Tong. fruitess chase, came on at full
Jump, yelping viciously.
Three OF the foremost actually
pOunced upon the head and fore parts
Of the deer, and had nearly jerked the
animal out of Perry's grasp before his
father and 'Liph came up and beat
them off with their spikes.
hc pos plu'hiS leii 10 HIS Suule
and dragged it back to the log-pil
while the two older men followed,
holding back with their spikes the
swapping pack, which increased in
dumbers every instant. Four wolves
we're knocked sprawling. and yet when
the three men had reached the log g-pile
with the deer, the whole savage crowd
was pressing upon three sides, snap
ping, yelping, bounding over one anoth-
er, and back and forth as blows were
aimed at them.
1t began to look to the men as If it
would be fight for life. The biggest
and boldost Of the pack did not hesitate
to leap directly at the loggers, with
vicious snaps of the teeth that sounded
like the clicking of - many pairs of
shears, and yet the brutes were care
ful to keep beyond the swing of the
clubs. Perry, however, while the
others We're fighting. succeeded in drag
ging his venison to the top of the pyra-
mid.
'Liph and Perry's father then sprang
upon the logs, and climbed to the top
of the pile where the boy now stood
One hardy wolf Immediately followed
with jump. alighting on the lower
logs; but downward sweep of 'Liph's
handspike knocked him heels over
head, and sent him limping and howl
ing away with q broken leg. This
had the effect of intimidating the pack
from making any immediate attempt
to rush upon the loggers.
The wolves-'Liph counted 3S of
.hem-squatted about. licked their jaws
anxiously. or shifted back and forth
rs If tempted to make leap upon the
togs
The besieged stamped about upon the
top of their pyramid. shouted and
waved their clubs to scare the beasts.
But the gaunt horde. desperate with
faHting. pressed about the log heap on
all sides with swapping jaws and eyes
that. even in the deepening twilight.
cleaned ferociously.
Aside from immediate danger Mt the
Jaws of the brutes. the situation of