Identifier: huntingtrappings00pric (find matches)
Title: Hunting and trapping stories; a book for boys
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: (Price, J. P. Hyde), 1874- (from old catalog)
Subjects: Hunting
Publisher: New York, McLoughlin bro's
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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d will not go near anything that theydo not understand, or suspect is a trap. In winter time however theycannot be scared off so easily. Bounties are offered by the goverments for wolves heads, and slowly thepacks are, disappearing. Pit-falls, snap-traps, guns and poison are makingserious havoc in their ranks. Before now a small pack has been entirelywiped out through eating the dead body of a horse that had been thoroughlysaturated with poison. The wolf isnt worth much commerically. Its fur is beautiful in wintertime, but the risk of getting it is too great. In our western states it isthought good fun to hunt the wolf from horseback with a pack of hounds.Again, wolves are sometimes stuck with a spear, in much the same way as pig-sticking, is carried on in India. The wolf is found all over the world,but from Europe it has almost vanished; the price on its head proving toomuch for it. Wolves in captivity are sometimes crossed with big dogs and thepuppies are terribly strong and savage.
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QUARRLLING OVER THE FEAST THE ORYX The Oryx is one of the largest antelopes that is found throughoutSouth Africa. The Zulus kill the animal in large numbers for food, andfrom its skin they make a tough natural leather. A hunter who was passing through Zululand asked many questions ofthe natives regarding the oryx. He found that on the whole it was a peace-ful, harmless creature, except that it had an appetite which caused its manneighbors much trouble; for at certain seasons vast herds would collect andmove across the country looking for food. The result was that many milesof good grazing land would be stripped bare of grass and small bushes, sothat the Zulus cattle gradually died of starvation. Until the white men came in great numbers the oryx were very plentiful,but the rifle has thinned its ranks to an appalling extent. The Zulus methodof hunting the oryx is by surrounding it and driving a spear into the animalsbody before it can escape. The horns of the oryx are long and very sha

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