70 WOLF DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



times. Two brothers, Mike and Dick Griffin, lived in 

 the southern part of Keating Township. They lost a 

 yearling steer. They drew the steer out into the woods 

 and skinned it. One of the men went past the carcass 

 of the steer one day and noticed that a pack of wolves 

 were making nightly visits to the carcass for their 

 meals, as he noticed a well traveled path where they 

 came down from the mountains for their evening 

 meal, and take the same path to the mountains. The 

 men purchased a bottle of strychnine and poisoned the 

 carcass. The wolves returned that night and ate their 

 last meal. They went back into the mountains. The 

 men followed the trail some distance and got dis- 

 couraged as the snow was very deep. They gave up. 

 They thought the poison no good because it did not 

 kill almost instantly. They found after a while that 

 the poison would kill their neighbor's dogs and even 

 kill crows that fed on that carcass. There is not a 

 doubt in my mind but what that was the last meal 

 any of that bunch ever ate. In June, 1877, the writer 

 found where wolves had killed a deer. It being in a 

 locality where young cattle were liable to feed, making 

 it dangerous to set traps, we decided to use poison. 

 None of the brutes came back after eating one meal 

 of the poisoned meat. In December, 1878, wolves 

 killed six sheep for a neighbor. We tied one of the 

 dead sheep on a hand-sled, drew it back into the woods 

 about one mile, following the trail where the wolves 

 had come in. We poisoned this carcass to kill. ■ In 

 about two weeks we had a severe thaw; the snow all 



