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 small, but also because the pasturage was limited, and the danger of attack by wolves was always present. No law had as yet been passed offering a reward for the destruction of the latter; the only means adopted by the colonists as a protection against them was to appoint servants to look after all the cattle in the possession of their masters. The cattle of William Pierce

As a barrier against bands of marauding Indians, it had