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hide of the wolf killed by Dan Long, in the Blue 

 Mountains in 1886, was made into a rug, after the 

 proud Nimrod had collected a twelve dollar bounty on 

 the scalp at Reading. It was loaned to relatives of the 

 hunter's wife who resided at Bethel (Millersburg). 

 There it was much admired for a number of years. 

 Later it was taken to Reading, where it is said to be at 

 present, and a strenuous search might locate it. In 

 the Carnegie ]\Iuseum in Pittsburg is the mounted 

 hide of the "coyote" killed at Beaver Dams, in Blair 

 County, in 1907. There is a bare possibility that it is 

 a real "brown wolf" of Central Pennsylvania, that is, 

 if the prairie wolf and the "small brown wolf of Penn- 

 sylvania" are identical. C. S. Van Near, of Somerset. 

 Somerset County, had until recently the hide of a grey 

 timber wolf killed in the mountains of that county in 

 1897 by an old hunter named John Queer. But there 

 is considerable doubt if it was a genuine Pennsylvania 

 wolf, or a western wolf liberated or escaped in Penn- 

 sylvania. The hides of the wolfish dogs brought to 

 M. W, Straley at Chambersburg are probably still in 

 existence, the male in the author's collection, the fe- 

 male in INIr. vStraley's collection. The cornplete hide 

 of a black wolf is said to be preserved in the attic of a 

 farm house in High Valley, Centre County. A black 

 wolf's skull is said to be in the "upstairs" of a hog pen 

 at a farm on the "Winter Side" of Sugar Valley, near 

 Chadwick's Gap. A wolf's paw was preserved at a 

 farmhouse in Penn's A^alley, near the Fox Gap. The 

 Pennsylvania Indians possessed a small dog, described 



