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Animal Heroes
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Ernest Thompson Seton
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This
was
the
cause
of
the
great
final
hunt
that
they
fixed
for
Christmas
Day
just
two
years
after
the
scene
at
the
grave
of
Little
Jim.
It
seemed
as
though
all
the
Dogs
in
the
country
were
brought
together.
The
three
Huskies
were
there--the
Factor
considered
them
essential--there
were
Danes
and
trailers
and
a
rabble
of
farm
Dogs
and
nondescripts.
They
spent
the
morning
beating
all
the
woods
east
of
St.
Boniface
and
had
no
success.
But
a
telephone
message
came
that
the
trail
they
sought
had
been
seen
near
the
Assiniboine
woods
west
of
the
city,
and
an
hour
later
the
hunt
was
yelling
on
the
hot
scent
of
the
Winnipeg
Wolf.
Away
they
went,
a
rabble
of
Dogs,
a
motley
rout
of
horsemen,
a
mob
of
men
and
boys
on
foot.
Garou
had
no
fear
of
the
Dogs,
but
men
he
knew
had
guns
and
were
dangerous.
He
led
off
for
the
dark
timber
line
of
the
Assiniboine,
but
the
horsemen
had
open
country
and
they
headed
him
back.
He
coursed
along
the
Colony
Creek
hollow
and
so
eluded
the
bullets
already
flying.
He
made
for
a
barb-wire
fence,
and
passing
that
he
got
rid
of
the
horsemen
for
a
time,
but
still
must
keep
the
hollow
that
baffled
the
bullets.
The
Dogs
were
now
closing
on
him.
All
he
might
have
asked
would
probably
have
been
to
be
left
alone
with
them--forty
or
fifty
to
one
as
they
were--he
would
have
taken
the
odds.
The
Dogs
were
all
around
him
now,
but
none
dared
to
close
in,
A
lanky
Hound,
trusting
to
his
speed,
ran
alongside
at
length
and
got
a
side
chop
from
Garou
that
laid
him
low.
The
horsemen
were
forced
to
take
a
distant
way
around,
but
now
the
chase
was
toward
the
town,
and
more
men
and
Dogs
came
running
out
to
join
the
fray.
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