Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1895 — Wolves. [ARTICLE]

Wolves.

Doctor Rae, the Arctic traveler, relates how wolves will take the bait from a gun-trap without danger to themselves by first cutting the line connecting the bait and the trigger. He says: “I may also mention what I have been told, though I never had an opportunity of seeing it, that wolves watch the fishermen who set lines in deep water for trout, through holes in the ice in Lake Superior, and very soon after the man has left, the wolf goes to the place, takes hold of the stick that is placed across the hole and made fast to the line, trots off with it along the ice until the bait is brought to the surface, then returns and eats the bait and the fish, if any happens to he on the hook. The trout of Lake Superior are very large, and the bait is of a size in proportion.” A dude in Philadelphia was turned out of the club to which he belonged because he paid his tailor’s bills two days after he got the detfcaa.