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Minnesota man’s life saved by a match.
Treed by wolves, He ignites coat of one of the animals by dropping light upon it and all flee to timber.
    Hans Peterson, a farmer of Walworth county, Wis., conceived an original way of escaping from a pack of wolves that gave him chase and treed him within half a mile of his home. Peterson took some matches from a box that he carried in his pocket and after several attempts he succeeded in droping a lighted one on the back of a big animal that was determined to climb after him. The woolly back of the animal took fire, causing him to howl with pain and fright. In his rage he made for the timber, followed by the whole tribe. Peterson was then able to make tracks for his house.
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