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The sharp barkings of the dog increase in fury, and when the trapper emerges in the open, he finds the wolf has straggled a hundred yards farther.

From The Story of the Trapper by Laut, A. C.

Here is a farmer who has straggled all the way from Altenburg. 

From A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France by Duthie, William