Vengeance Of The Wolves

During1 one of my hunting and fishing excursions in Louisiana, says a writer in Forest and Stream, I was fishing on a lake two or three miles long and from one-quarter to one-half mile wide. On one side the hill land eame down near the lake, leaving about one-quarter mile of sand beach, and while there I saw a deer running at the top of its speed toward the lako, and a moment later a wolf appeared in hot pursuit.' Expecting them to plunge into the lake, when I could overtake and kill them both in the water, I kept my place. Just before the deer reached the water it was caught by the wolf, vhich pulled it down and killed it. Then the woll stalked around, looked about, trotted off some distance and set up a howl, went further and again howled and then into the woods, when I heard mofe howling. The wolf being out of sight, I rowed my boat to the place and got the deer and then went back to my fishhooks. Shortly there appeared on the scène a pack of ten or twelve wolves. They sniff ed and moved all around where the deer had been killed. These movements occupied considerable time. They would huddle together, ehange about and trot in all directions, keeping close together. Finally they got into a fight; the whole pack attacked one wolf and killed it. It was literally bitten and chewed to pieces. Now, what was the wolf killed for? The probability is, and I am almost positive, that the dead wolf was the one that killed the deer. I have talked to many hunters upon the subject, and have come across but two who had seen anything similar, and they thought the wolf had been killed for lying. If il was done in the case I saw for lying it was the only time I ever knew a woli to be killed wrongfully.