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out to Glover who killed him.  The next one was a scrapper & got me by the thumb & nearly made holes through my buckskin gloves before I could get him by the neck.  Two others got hold of my hand & bit pretty hard but did not get through the glove.  Their little teeth are very sharp & pretty long, but the muscles of their jaws are not very strong.  They were the size of big cats & later were found to weigh 6 1/4 lbs to about 7 lbs apiece.  Were probably 6 weeks old at best.

We each took 4 on our backs & started for Pinedale.  Had come about 8 miles in finding the den & it was about 11 to Pinedale  so we started went there with them.  Struck out Fremont Lake & made a sledge of my skies & trotted down the lake on the ice about 6 miles then had 3 miles of rough ridges, soft snow & slow hard work to town.  Got in a 3 P.M. skinned 4 of the wolves & started back to ranch with mail carrier part way.  Walked about 2 miles.