Makers of the world's history and their grand achievements . rafty enemy had beenindulged in, it was gener-ally concluded that thewolf was not such a greatfool in going into thiscavity as they might havethought her. She was,to all intents and pur-poses, in her should they go towork to get her out? Atfirst they tried tantaliza-tion, — sending in theirdogs, who came out againyelping and crying, with general Israel putnam. lacerated skins, and torn and bloody noses, showing how skilfully shehad used her claws in her own defence. They could not prevail on thedogs that had tried the en
Makers of the world's history and their grand achievements . rafty enemy had beenindulged in, it was gener-ally concluded that thewolf was not such a greatfool in going into thiscavity as they might havethought her. She was,to all intents and pur-poses, in her should they go towork to get her out? Atfirst they tried tantaliza-tion, — sending in theirdogs, who came out againyelping and crying, with general Israel putnam. lacerated skins, and torn and bloody noses, showing how skilfully shehad used her claws in her own defence. They could not prevail on thedogs that had tried the entrance once to go in the second time. So they next hit upon the plan to stuif in lighted bundles of straw,sprinkled liberally with siilphur, hoping thus to smoke her oxit. Theyvery truly argued that, if she could stand that, she must be too muchfor them to think of attacking. Accordingly, the straw was piled in, andset on fire. The dense volumes of smoke rose and rolled slowly into thecave, and they thought thej^ were going to secure their game this time. 324 gknI:ral isr.\i:i. putnam. without ail}- further trouble. But they looked, and continued to look, invain for the appearance of anything like a wolf. The smoke could uothave reached her, or, if it did, it failed to have the effect up.)n her theyhad calculated. Time was wearing on in this way, and nothing seemed likely to comeof all their labor at last. It wanted now but about a couple of hours toniidni<-ht. They were not willing to go home and leave their dreadedenemy where she was, unharmed, and free to repeat her bloody mischief. PUTNAM CRAWLS INTO THE WOLFS DEN. Finally it became difficult to endure this state of suspense an} longer,and Putnam took his resolution. It was a bold, and no doubt a veryreckless, one ; but when he considered, in a flash of his thought, theamount of the losses incurred by his neighbors, as well as himself, fromthe depredations of this ravenous wild beast, he wondered how it fo
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