WOLF DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 17 



no effort to molest him. That same winter Jonas J. 

 Barnet, born in 1838, who resides at Weikert, Union 

 County, often heard wolves tonguing deer at night in 

 Poe Valley, where he was engaged in getting out 

 logs. J- D. Eckel, surveyor of Green Township, 

 Clinton County, relates how his father, the late J. L. 

 Eckel, told him of finding a wolf's track up the moun- 

 tain side at McCall's Dam. A little further on it was 

 joined by a second wolf, which had come up from the 

 valley, later on by a third, and a fourth, and a fifth, 

 and a sixth, until a score of wolves had joined the lead- 

 er on the mountain top, showing that the animals trav- 

 eled with military precision, coming together after the 

 night's forays at previously arranged stations. J. F. 

 Knepley, of Jersey Shore Junction, states that his 

 father. Christian Knepley, the first mail carrier on the 

 Pike between Jersey Shore and Coudersport, often re- 

 lated how the wolves used to run ahead of his horse 

 like hunting dogs. The wolves had a regular crossing 

 in eastern Sugar Valley, their path being in the hollow- 

 between the Samuel Brown and John Womeldorf 

 homesteads. Mrs. Sophia Schwenk, nee Brown, re- 

 lates how as a school girl she was not allowed to go to 

 school — she had to cross the wolf's path to reach the 

 school house — on days when these animals were per- 

 forming their migrations. That was about 1860, 

 when the region about the Brown homestead was a 

 dense forest of original white pines and hemlocks. 

 W. H. Franck, of Eastville, grandson of Jacob Franck, 

 the famous Sugar Vallev wolf and bear hunter, re- 



