74 WOLF DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



than the tail of a grey \volf of the same size. During 

 the latter part of the nineties, a man living in the City 

 of Bradford, had a cage of young coyotes sent 

 him by a friend in one of the Western States. He 

 fixed a pen in his yard, put the five coyotes in it, and. 

 after a couple of years, these coyotes broke jail one 

 night and all made their escape. One of them was 

 killed the next morning in a neighbor's hen house, 

 where he had killed half the poultry in the house. The 

 next they were seen was near Rixford and Duke Cen- 

 ter, where two of them were shot while they were kill- 

 ing sheep. The next place the two remaining ones 

 were seen was on the farm of L. T. Gallup, in Liberty 

 Township (which adjoins Potter County). They 

 came into Mr. Gallup's sheep pasture in mid-day and 

 killed a sheep. ]\Ir. Gallup saw them kill the sheep. 

 He took his rifle out and shot one of them ; the other 

 one made his escape, and the only thing we have ever 

 heard (until recently) of the lone coyote was an item 

 we saw about seven years ago in the Williamsport 

 Grit, which stated that a wolf had been killed in Blair 

 County, where there had not been a wolf seen for 

 forty years. At the time we read about this Blair 

 County wolf we were of the opinion that if anything 

 like a wolf had been killed in that locality it was the 

 last one of the five coyotes that made their escape in 

 Bradford. We saw an item clipped from the Altoona 

 Tribune of January 21, 1914, giving an account of 

 the killing of the 'Beaver Dam wolf,' and as the 

 writer of that article gave such a glowing account of 



