. Rod and gun. wsend inthe coumty of Norfolk, Upper Canada,now called the Province of Ontario. Where ? askedthe elder brother.•Down in the sheepfield,came the hasty / response. No !exclaimed the elderbrother, its a wolfand he is going tokill the sheep ! In-stantly the little fel-lows left their play,and accompanied bythe faithful old dogTige made for thefield in an attemptto rescue the sheep^Their mother havingheard the alarm fol-lowed in an excitedmanner. She calledback her venture-some offspring, whoin their anxiety forthe safety of thesheep, heeded nother anxious warn-ings. In the mean-time
. Rod and gun. wsend inthe coumty of Norfolk, Upper Canada,now called the Province of Ontario. Where ? askedthe elder brother.•Down in the sheepfield,came the hasty / response. No !exclaimed the elderbrother, its a wolfand he is going tokill the sheep ! In-stantly the little fel-lows left their play,and accompanied bythe faithful old dogTige made for thefield in an attemptto rescue the sheep^Their mother havingheard the alarm fol-lowed in an excitedmanner. She calledback her venture-some offspring, whoin their anxiety forthe safety of thesheep, heeded nother anxious warn-ings. In the mean-time the wolf was dis- porting himself with the sheep. Thelatter were huddled closely together, andwould start to retreat and divide whenclosely pressed from behind by the wolf,closing together again as he passedthrough. He repeated this manoeuvrethree times before the rescuing partyarrived close enough to interfere with hisoperations. The boys shouted at the top of theirshrill voices and old Tige bayed His previous experiences with wolveshowever forbad him closing in on theanimal. But as the party drew nearerthe wolf started off on a careless run forthe woods, and as he lazily climbed thefence seven other wolves, who had beenwatching the perforniance of their fellowin the sheep field, made their long fierce defiant series of howls, fol-lowed by short, snappy, jerky yelps, camefrom the pack beforethey entered thewoods and disappear-ed. There was muchrejoicing at the de-parture of the wolvesand the sheep wereat once driven to thefold and made securefor the night. Not long after theoccurrence the familywere visited by anold hunter and trap-per who had had along and varied ex-perience with a matter of facthe was one of thefirst men to receivethe bounties on wolfscalps offered by theGovernment of UpperCanada. He was aScotchman by birthMISNER. and was familiarly known through allthe country side as Old Wilson. Thefamily related to him the story of the
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