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Civil War, in 1864, and that they were prevalent in 

 large numbers when he was a boy, over sixty-five 

 years ago. D. C. Ney, of Jonestown, Lebanon Coun- 

 ty, states that his uncle, Thomas Ney, killed wolves in 

 Indiantown Gap subsequent to 1840, that the wolves 

 maintained a path along the summit of the Second 

 Mountain as far west as the Susquehanna, thence into 

 the wilds of Clarks' Valley. Daniel Long, still living 

 in Shubert's Gap, near Millersburg, killed a wolf near 

 his home in 1886. It came to his farmstead at butch- 

 ering time, making friends with an. unsexed female 

 dog. The dog followed the wolf to the mountain, and 

 returning with it several days later the "fleet by night" 

 was shot by Long, who lay in ambush for. it. The 

 hide, w'hich Long says was black in color, was made 

 into a rug, and is said to be in Reading at the present 

 time. This was undoubtedly the last wolf killed east 

 of the Blue Mountains, and was possibly a straggler 

 from the Seven Mountains. John Simcox, son of the 

 wolf hunter, Abe Simcox, while working at a prop- 

 timber job at the head of Kammerdiner Run, in Clin- 

 ton County, in 1900, observed a black wolf which came 

 to the camp every evening for two weeks and played 

 with a collie dog belonging to the camp boss. In 1901 

 John Simcox and' his brother Torrence saw three 

 wolves near the Wolf Rock on Henry Run. The 

 wolves, after resting on the rock, disappeared across 

 the run and up the steep slope of Sugar Valle)^ Hill, 

 where wolves had many dens in an early day. Wolves 

 came close to John D. Decker's home in Decker Valley 



