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Show id THR BATTLE Exciting ey tm Adventuie in of British RE‘ WOLVE =S. a Timber l-y Lundreds, for their pelts, whien y.ere worta from three to five dollars cuch. Now itis a very difficult matter to find a cray wolf, even in the wild Hunte! Columbia. Of the very few instances of the grax volf attacking man, one is related b John Fannin in Forest and Stream o a Mr. King, who iEW. wasa timber wet, and in Montana and Wyoming they are almost 4s searee as bears.—W. hunte ‘l. Hornaday. in ritish Columbia. Onee. when trav cling quite alone through an dnamens forest. searcinng for the best Snake A North Carolina a2 curious encounter timber and camping wherever night overtoo! him, Mr. King suddenly found him self surrounded -by a pack of be tween forty and fifty gray wolves They thought they ‘Shad him for!.’ woulkl lunch they made one at his expense; but shght mistake. In stead of being armed snake Ee a and only with an ax. as they supposed, be had a good re peating rifle and plenty of cartridyes. “Well,” said Mr. it could be called De eated King, ‘'the fight, it one, lasted about half an hour. Then afew of them broke away into the timber and commenced howling, which had the effect and a huge by a Frog. farmer witnessed between a black bullfrog. The snake. looking for his dinner, had seized the irom by the hind legs and attempied vo swillow it, but the frog was not inclined to consent. Seizing hold of a bamboo brier with its mouth, it held on like grim death, while the snake. wrapping its tail around a convenient shrub, pulled baek with a will; but it was nogo. The from held on firmly, and, as the snake could not pull him loose, it finally released its hold and retired in search of something better. THE He Went Into TAMéED Baby’s Wise A great many year for their as SEAL. Room an and Looked Owl. seals are killed every soft. fine fur. Among the Shetland islands the people use to think thet harm would come to anyone who killed a seal. A number of these animals were eaught and trained. One was a very large fellow... Two men could hardly manage him. He was soon tamed, and had ached for his home. [Every day he would go to t'* sea for food, and re- 7 Sy turn to the land when his master called AN AMERICAN GRAY WOLF. of drawing the rest after. them, the whole band started away full jump, howling they as on when the went. 1 found sixteen of their number dead. and probably not a few were wounded.” As arule, the gray wolf soon disappears from settled regions. In tie United States there is probably not one wolf to-day where twenty year; avo there were fifty. The Ikilling of ine ranchmen’'s eattle, colts and sheen was not to be tolerated, and a bounty was put on the gray wolf's head, with fatal effect. More deadly than the steel trap or the Winchester, t'ie strychnine bottle was nniverset!y lrought to bear upon his most vilneretle point—hisravenousappetite. Lven during the last days of 2.vuntana, the hunters the pot buival> oned wolve in him. At the house dear little baby mothcr rocked laid lim ia his of his owner lived a boy. One day babv': him to sleep «aut httle bed. Then sa: went out, leaving the door open. so thut she might hear him if he awodtre Ife did not awake; but after awaile mamma @ecame into the room aain. There was the great seal close to bavy's cot, looking into his face as if he would like to kiss him. Mamma was frivthtened screamed. eame and floundered just and Then the seul’s master ordered him out. Ile away to his shed. Th» seal would not have hurt the ba’ Seals are very loving creatures. —J vlia A. Tirrell, ; ; |