Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20

expected either comfort or convenience and had
set three hours the probable limit of delay in
two hundred-me That would allow me to find
the trail by twilight and to reach camp few hours
after nightfall. But the frst-class clean
and comfortable; the smoking room was a coy
place; the meals served at little wayside station
JOY to hungry and somewhat fastldious man.
and the train stopped at station after station
promptly on the minute my spirits began to jump
We stopped at my lake two minutes ahead of Sched-
ule time, and hardly had we tumbled out our bags
sedge. and showshoes before the train swallowed
up in the deep woods beyond. At dusk we were al.
most within sight of camp, with the wild wolf
chorus ringing out welcome to the wilderness.
Devastation of the Wolves
DIG timber wolves are the great destroyers of game
in the park, and it was largely to study these
wolves that made my first visit They are very
abundant, and as they can catch deer at any time
and they feed largely venson from December
to May, the number they destroy in single season
must be enormous. On trip, in little Of
the park-some ten fifteen square miles of which
packs had killed three deer two beaver and otter
in ten days Of they killed more game which
l did not discover; but if we take this average
for ten days in say, twenty square miles, the total
figures for the winter and for the two thousand square
miles would be appalling.
The Ontario Government pays liberal bounty on
wolves and rangers allowed to poison them; but,
being well fed with warm rich flesh, they seldom return
kill aside for frozen BATS and the number
poisoned each far below the natural increase
For sportsman fond of vigorous exercise and of
matching his wits against the keenest of animals.
know of nothing to compare in interest with the
chase of these big timber wolves
First, let me say that though abundant they are
shy and seldom seen, and the chances well the
wits always in their favor Early in the morning,
in the evening twilight, they occasionally
on the runways, and sometimes gets a long shot
at pack crossing the open lakes.
Quite by accident day l discovered that the
wolf can be hunted, and hunted in way that calls
for the finest trailing and stalking. In this rough,
billy densey wooded country of deep snow dogs and
horses alike out of the question, since neither
could keep within sight of wolf for two minutes A
man snowshoes may occasionally surprise pack.
but otherwise, if the wolves travelling, he
hardly get within miles of his game by any possible
exertion So Indians and trappers alike had told me
that it absolutely use to hunt wolf
Spying After Harmless Game
ONE morning. soon after daylight, discovered
- where pack had just killed and partly eaten
buck and picked up their trail, not with any idea
of catching them,-for had gone out to study bea-
yer, without weapon Of any nd,-but just to
where they would GO and what they would do next.
They had evidently had long hunt, and now, well
fed and contented, they roamed about aimessly for
awhile, like lazy dogs. When they came to my snow
shoe trail of the night before, they examined it
closely and followed it short distance. They
headed westward at last to rough country andI
had not followed the fascinating trail mile before the
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