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Hunting the Grisly and Other Sketches

CHAPTER VIII
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I could just see the wolf and the first big dog locked together, as the second one made good his throat-hold.

In another moment over all three tumbled, while the greyhounds and one or two of the track-hounds jumped in to take part in the killing.

The big dogs more than occupied the wolf's attention and took all the punishing, while in a trice one of the greyhounds, having seized him by the hind-leg, stretched him out, and the others were biting his undefended belly.

The snarling and yelling of the worry made a noise so fiendish that it was fairly bloodcurdling; then it gradually died down, and the second wolf lay limp on the plains, killed by the dogs, unassisted.
This wolf was rather heavier and decidedly taller than either of the big dogs, with more sinewy feet and longer fangs.
I have several times seen wolves run down and stopped by greyhounds after a break-neck gallop and a wildly exciting finish, but this was the only occasion on which I ever saw the dogs kill a big, full-grown he-wolf unaided.

Nevertheless various friends of mine own packs that have performed the feat again and again.


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