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Show A WESTERN WOLF DRIVE. i It Casts a Drag Net Over Twenty Square Miles of Territory, Everything Is big out hero the men, tho ranches, tho aspects of tho earth Itself, says the Wahoo (Neb.) correspondent of the Buffalo Expross. Hunting Is big llko tho rest. It has a breadth that astonishes the Eastornor. And, llko everything elso In tho West, sport out hero has Its practical sldo. Wolves and wildcats kill tho cattlo, and so tho rrn hunt thorn as a means of getting rid f them. The average wolf drlvo takes In twenty squaro milos. Four captnlns take charge, each of ono sldo of tho big squaro. Thoy set their men in motion at 9:30 o'clock In tho morning nnd all tho hunters simultaneously begin to push In toward tho center. As they go they drlvo along In front of thorn all tho animals nnd birds In tho square. Tho hounds woro lot loose lu tho center nnd dilvo tho wolves to tho Bides, whoro thoy nro shot down. Only shot gnne aro usud In tho wolt drives. The closing sceno Is usually a largo hay field, where tho gamo has small chanco to hide or escape. Tho men go to tho hunt In rigs, and aftor tho battlo you can seo tho wagons roll along back homo, carrying men and gamo. - |