Montana Girl Had a Narrow Escape from an Awful Fate.
Chased for more than a mile by a pack of wild dogs, Miss Gertie Sullivan, daughter of a sheep man living on Birch creek, near Havre, Mont., escaped only by spending the night in an old corral and picking off the animals now and then with a rifle.
Miss Sullivan was riding her pony across the prairie when she saw, some distance away, perhaps twenty animals, which at first glance she took to be coyotes, but wild dogs, of which there are several small packs in northern Montana and just over the Canadian line.
It became a ride for life with Miss Sullivan. She had with her a small rifle, but the animals seemed so savage she dared not stop and give them battle. As she began to despair of escaping she sighted the old sheep corral, and toward this she ran her horse, reaching it only when the pack was but a short distance away. To enter with the pony and quickly close the gate was the work of a moment.
Snapping and snarling, the dogs tore at the poles forming the stockade, but were unable to gain entrance. The girl began shooting at the animals, which retreated when she fired and returned to the attack when the rifle was silent. Miss Sullivan was found the next morning by her father and brother, who had been seeking her.
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