WOLF DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



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cats, minks and weasels should be allowed . ingress to 

 preserves inhabited by game birds, as these animals 

 prey on rats, mice and other pests which are apt to 

 become overly numerous and destroy the eggs and 

 }'Oung of grouse, pheasants and quails. For the same 

 reason hawks and owls should be rigorously pro- 

 tected. If the wolf per sc cannot be re-introduced in 

 Pennsvlvania, he can be hrcd hack. The German 

 police dogs, so plentiful in Philadelphia and Pitts- 

 burg, are almost zvolves; a few generations of wild 

 life and freedom in the mountains would make them 

 i^.'olvcs in everv sense of the word. 



