A FIGHT WITH WOLVES.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3266, 20 December 1881, Page 4

A FIGHT WITH WOLVES.

Eeport comes from the town of Daytown, in Winconsin, of a terrible encounter of a man with seven wolves. He is a farmer and owns a large herd of sheep. He went out to drivo them home the other night) and in passing a swamp he heard snarling and barking. He had taken his old musket along, thinking, perhaps, he might shoot a partridge or some small game, and had loaded it "with No. 4 shot. Not feeling unsafe, he advanced toward the sound, and there saw two old wolves and five three-quarter grown whelps wrangling and fighting over the dead body of a sheep. Ho got within two rods of them before they heard him, when he fired into their midst. Immediately the whole seven toward him, and before he had time to climb a tree they were full upon him. He reversed the gun and used it for a club, The fight lasted for an hour, and so savage and ferocious were the wolves that as one after another of their number received a death-stroko from the old musket they pounced upon their fallen comrade and proceeded to devour him. At this juncture the farmer would rush in with his gun and kill another, hauling one or both of the dead bodies back to the tree near which the fight took place. He did this, he afterwards eaid, to save their carcasses, as there is a bounty of lldols on each wolf killed in Waupacs county. After the hour's skirmish the seven wolves lay dead at the farmer's feet. He was unable to carry their carcasses home, so he took out a large knife he had in his pocket, skinned the whole seven, saved their seven skulls, and afterwards applied to the county clerk for his 77d01s bounty, besides obtaining a fair Ipico for their skins. During the fight he had every bit of clothing torn from his body, his hands and legs badly bitten, and tho lower part of one ear snapped off.