34 WOLF DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



are two or three weeks old, the two old ones do their 

 heavy killing of sheep. The male wolf stays with the 

 female from mating time until the young are grown 

 and hunts for food as faithfully as the mother wolf. 

 When the young are about ten weeks old the old ones 

 take them from the den and begin to teach them t<i 

 travel. After they leave the den they are a band of 

 wanderers. They do not return to the den again that 

 year. 'I'hey are taught to wander and kill. By the 

 time they are six months old they aie great rangers 

 and will travel as far in a night as the old ones care 

 to. go. During late September and October the wood- 

 chucks are denned up for the winter, so the wolves 

 will begin to slaughter sheep^ again, but at this season 

 of the year the number of sheep killed is only about 

 half compared with May and June. Their sheep kill- 

 ing is not confined to the two periods above men- 

 tioned, for they are liable to make a raid on sheep at 

 any time. During the lattter part of January the old 

 wolves will take the young wolves to some locality 

 from twenty to forty miles from the den. Here they 

 will soon teach the young they have got to stay away 

 from them. They must not follow after the old ones ; 

 if they do, the}^ get roughly handled. As soOn as the 

 young are thoroughly convinced they have got to 

 shift for themselves the old ones return to their den. 

 and any wolf that dares to venture near that point has 

 got to be able to whip that pair or he must hike for 

 other quarters. A full grown Pennsylvania grey wolf 

 is about as tall as a greyhound, and has a long nose, 



