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stand up in the car and work the movie
camera for me, we were bumping about
like a ship in a heavy sea. I got tired
off 100 feet or more of film before they
were out of range and we stopped
for a breathing space.
The 200 foot roll of film was exhau
st and very foolishly I neglected to
replace it with a fresh film. We
started back to camp as we were
getting short of gasoline and my
neglect cost me the only fine prints
pictures I could ever have obtain-
We had not gone two miles on our
way back when we saw a wolf
standing on a little rise of ground and
he was looking at us and as the
group was splendid we put on
full speed after him. The speed
ometer registered 40 but my memory
was never at our fastest and the wolf
was rapidly losing ground. I got
mad that at his highest speed when
he was fresh, he was going at
30mi. for hr. He ran like the very
devil for about two miles but we
were too much for him and were
rapidly gaining. Suddenly as
we came over a little rise we
saw a big herd of cattle coming