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WOLF DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



was for the permanent abode, but a second generally 

 ten miles distant, was kept in readiness in case the 

 regular cave was noticed by some passing fisherman 

 or prospector, who would be sure to report its exist- 

 ence at the nearest settlement. When the wolfers ar- 

 rived at the spot the entire wolfish family would have 

 left for ''parts unknown."' For that reason one of 

 the parent wolves was constantly on guard. This 

 sagacious trait saved many a litter of pups at the 

 Wolf Rock dens at the head of Henry Run, Clinton 

 County, that otherwise would have been quickly de- 

 stroyed. Yet correctly speaking, wolves were home- 

 loving animals, and their dislike of abandoning ac- 

 customed neighborhoods contributed not a little to 

 their speedy extermination in Pennsylvania. It is a 

 misnomer to call them "wanderers;" only in their 

 last, dark, starving days did they flit from place to 

 place in Pennsylvania. 



