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coming towards hin,i; he threw them some scraps of 

 bread and cheese until it was all gone. The wolves 

 made a closer approach to him, and he knew not what 

 to do, so he took a pair of bagpipes which he had, and 

 as soon as he began to play upon them, all the wolves 

 ran away as if they had been scared out of their wits. 

 The soldier, disgusted, cried out : "A pox take you all. 

 If I had known you loved music so well, you should 

 have had it before dinner." Hollister in his great 

 ''History of the Lackawanna Valley," tells of a pioneer 

 in Leggett's Gap who in traveling through the forests 

 dragged an old saw-mill saw after him over the rocky 

 trails ; the sounds effectually keeping away the packs 

 of wolves which formerly troubled him. This author 

 also tells of a woman, Airs. Nokes, who was "treed" 

 for an entire night by a pack of wolves. He names 

 Elias Scott as the most noted wolf hunter of the 

 valley. The sprightly and courageous Dorcas 

 Holt, of near Lewistown, is said to have poked 

 the barrel of a rifle down the throat of a 

 wolf which had the impertinence to look in at the 

 window where she sat sewing. At the present time no 

 skull, bone, hide or tail of any Pennsylvania wolf is 

 known to be in existence. During the prevalence of 

 these animals no one had the foresight to collect speci- 

 mens for the museums, probably as the extinction of 

 the species was not deemed imminent. But the poison- 

 ers hastened the end canis lupus; though skulls and 

 hides were probably in existence at remote farmhouses 

 for twentv vears after this general disappearance. The 



