Plummer came back unsuccessful ; so Mr. Remington brought suit in replevin. Sheriff Lisco went to serve the writ ; but Mr. Wilson and his sons and sonin-law resisted so stoutly that the sheriff went back to Chapped and procured a warrant for their arrest. On his second trip accompanied by Bill Plummer and a boy from Chicago he pulled into a hunting camp on Island Lake just as a blizzard came down from the north. Here he found Floyd Jones, A. W. Gumaer, Kirk McCall and Israel Kimbel who had no trouble in persuading him to stop and help eat the roast

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duck and swan, and share their camp during the blizzard. ( >n the third day they hit the trail for the Wilsons and soon had them arrested and hand-cuffed ; but Mrs. Wilson's bulldog got into the melee and started to chew up the trousers of the sheriff. The Chicago boy and Plummer both emptied their guns at the dog without effect, not even hitting any of the men or women in the crowd. Mrs. Wilson felled the Chicago boy with a huge beef bone and the dog having got out a little to one side Mr. Kirribel shot and killed it, but Mrs. Wilson's anger still raged, thinking that the poor dog had been shot by the boy. After the sheriff and constable had gone with their prisoners, the hunter deputies stayed and visited until the exasperated Mrs. Wilson got in a good humor and treated them to a bountiful and delicious dinner.