30 WOLF DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



wolfcr has this to say concerning the howhng of 

 wolves : "I wish I could describe this howl, but the 

 best comparison I can give would be to take a dozen 

 railroad whilstles, braid them together, and then let 

 one strand after another drop off, the last peal so 

 frightfuly piercing as to go through your heart and 

 soul ; you would feel as though your hair stood straight 

 on end if it was ever so long." The Brown brothers, 

 of Susquehanna County, caught many wolves in pit- 

 falls. A Susquehanna County wolf hunter, contem- 

 porary with the Brown boys, is quoted in Blackman's 

 History as describing the wolves of that region as 

 "coarse, grey-haired, ugly looking things." Wolves 

 were prevalent in Pike County as late as 1830. Joseph 

 Brooks, a Yorkshireman who died in 1833, made a 

 failure of his woolen-goods manufacturing near Ding- 

 man's Ferry because the wolves destroyed the sheep 

 in large numbers, while the lambs succumbed from 

 eating too much sheep laurel or "Lamb-kill." The site 

 of this unfortunate venture is now called the "George 

 W. Childs Park," having been given to the Common- 

 wealth of Pennsylvania by the widow of the famous 

 editor and philanthropist. One of the most famous 

 wolf hunters in Pennsylvania was "King" (Henry) 

 Heizmann, "The Bear Trapper," who died near Boy- 

 ersville, now called Alazeppa, Union County, in 1895. 

 Every fall this eccentric man, who was by profession 

 a maker of wooden pumps, would place his trapping 

 outfit in his saddle-bags and go to the White Deer 

 Mountains where he trapped until spring. He cap- 

 tured many wolves, luring them out of the forests by 



