16 WOLF DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



Mt. Alton, and there they learned that a wolf had 

 been seen on Marvin Run, a tributary to Kinzua 

 Creek, so they started out after the wolf. This 

 wplf had been seen by different people in the 

 woods during the year previous. It was reported 

 to be a big one, but no one who was armed had 

 got near enough to it to take a shot at it. Ives, 

 who was about 34 years old at the time, and 

 Pierce, also a young man, made their way over to 

 the section where the wolf had last been seen, 

 llie big fellow appeared and before he could get 

 away Ives got a shot at him and made short work 

 of the animal's existence. It was a female. 



"Mr. Ives says the pelt measured 7 feet 4 inches 

 in length from tip to tip. 



"In 1880 Mr. Ives shot an animal at Lewis Run 

 which he always considered a coyote, but which 

 other hunters declared was a wolf. There was no 

 question about the species of the animal killed on 

 the Kinzua, however." 



A pack of wandering wolves, a dozen in number, 

 came to the edge of the clearing at the back of the 

 home of the great wolf hunter, Aaron Hall, near 

 Unionville, Centre County, one winter night in 1880. 

 They set up a terrific howling which the dogs could 

 not silence. They came so close that their flaming 

 eyes could be seen by Mr. Hall and his sons from 

 where they stood on the back porch. After several 

 shots were fired at them they disappeared in the direc- 

 tion of the big Alleghany Mountain. A black wolf 

 followed Andrew Hironimus out of Poe Valley one 

 night in February, 1863. He could hear its tread in 

 the frozen snow a few feet back of him but it made 



