WOLF DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



of rocks you may not get a single wolf, for when the 

 young get to be six weeks old they are very cunning, 

 and the old ones have been known to leave the locality 

 of their den and not return to that locality for six 

 months or more. And it is seldom they return for 

 three or four weeks. Our method of trapping them 

 around a den is to set a trap in every path that leads to 

 the den. The most successful method the old-time 

 trapper had was path trapping. The best method of 

 trapping for wolves by bait was to throw our bait 

 down in any place in plain sight of some knoll two or 

 three rods away; set a trap on the knoll, for the wolf 

 would go over that knoll a dozen times before he 

 would venture up to the bait. Set no trap nearer the 

 bait than the one on the knoll, but if there should be 

 any old paths near, that is, within fifteen or twenty 

 rods, set a trap in each path. We would not go to 

 these tr-aps oftener than three or four days ; then we 

 would go past them just near enough so we could see 

 if they were setting all right — go fifty or a hundred 

 rods and go back on the other side of the valley. 

 Never go to the traps and turn around and go back, 

 for if you do, don't expect to catch a wolf in it. We 

 have never made a great fortune hunting or trapping 

 wolves, but we think we have come as near making 

 wages at it as any man in this section during our time, 

 for we have caught, killed and sold scores of young 

 and old ones besides what we poisoned. We are cer- 

 tain that we put quite a number out of commission, 

 possibly a hundred. Now we hope you won't think 



