Describe how Billy manages to subdue the wolf.

Billy comes to a ranch where dogs break loose from their chains to try to attack the wolf. This rancher recognizes Billy. He says he had not realized Billy was a lunatic and that he'd thought he knew all the lunatics in the country. He invites Billy for dinner telling him that they'll put the wolf in the smokehouse. The rancher says that he cannot leave the wolf outside because someone who saw her would come collect the rancher "with a butterfly net." After dinner, the rancher's wife, Jane Ellen, sees that the wolf is injured and insists that one of the ranch hands help sew up the animal's leg.