60 WOLF DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



its eyes flashed green light on particularly rough 

 nights. No wolves came near the pen while the head 

 was in evidence. A week later a pack pillaged the 

 pen to the tune of ten early lambs. Another report 

 has it that they were stolen by trout fishermen and 

 roasted at an orgy held in the Gotschall Hollow. A 

 female sheep dog owned by a farmer in the east end of 

 the Valley, during the hey-day of the white wolf, gave 

 birth to a litter of tailless white pups. These were 

 immediately put to death, as it was feared that they 

 would bring bad luck. A preacher met the white wolf 

 in the graveyard at Brungard's Church, and the animal 

 ran out of the gate yelping piteously. It acted, the 

 preacher said, like a yellow cur that had had boiling 

 water poured on it, or as one old free-thinker, Dennis 

 Haley, of Robbin's Hollow, put it, "it feared the sky- 

 pilot like the devil would holy water." After it was 

 skinned its flesh was found to be full of scars, the 

 result of conflicts with brown and grey wolves, Avhich 

 hated it as much as did the human residents of the 

 region. Sugar Valley was also plagued with a ter- 

 rible wolf of great boldness, which reseml)led tlie 

 famous "Bete de Gevaudan" of France. John 

 Schrack killed' this wolf one night at a sheep-fold near 

 Carroll, where it was unsuccessfully leaping up at a 

 sixteen foot stockade, on the top of which one of its 

 paws, nipped oiT in a steel trap, was impaled as a 

 "good luck" talisman. Its specialty for a long while 

 was frightening the school children who had to cross 

 the wolf's path or "crossing" which ran north and 

 south through the valley about a mile west of Carroll, 

 on their way to the old red school house. 



