WOLF DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 51 



where the wolves always crossed when leaving tlie val- 

 ley. The next morning the trap held a mammoth black 

 wolf. 



After this one was killed the farmers set out poison 

 and the wolves left immediately and never returned 

 afterward. They were seen later in the winter in 

 Brush Valley. 



Although many wolves were seen and tracked since 

 that time, that was the last one killed at the east end of 

 Penn's \ 'alley." Substantially the same story was told 

 to the writer by Charles W. Hosterman. of Wood- 

 ward, born in 184T. 



Abe Simcox. who died at his mountain home on the 

 south slope of "Sugar A'alley Hill" in 190!), aged (i8 

 years, killed a niunber of wolves at the Wolf Rock at 

 the head of Henry Run, in Wayne Township, Clinton 

 Cotmty, when he first moved "on the mountain" in 

 ISGl. Before his house was completed he lived in a 

 hunting cabin near the "Rock" which was a famous 

 rendezvous for wolves. One night, wdiile at the cabin 

 with Alajor W. H. Sours, of Pine Station, wolves 

 climbeil on the cabin roof, as if trying to get in at the 

 smoked beef hanging on the rafters. With game be- 

 coming scarce, the wolves grew desperate. This re- 

 minds one of the similar antics of a fox described by 

 the Stuart brothers in A'olume H of their entrancing 

 "Lays of the Deer Forest." After the Wayne Town- 

 ship wolves were gone, Simcox, accompanied by Hugh 

 McClure, made several successful wolf trapping ex- 

 cursions to the head of Young Woman's Creek. That 



