108 WOLF DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



a respectful distance, appeared on the scene, and, rais- 

 ing his rifle, killed both wolves with two well-directed 

 shots. A similar story is told in Southern France, 

 showing the apparently universal intelligence of the 

 wolf family. Philip Shreckengast, of Tylersville, 

 Clinton County, recounted an experience along the 

 same lines that happened to him when watching a 

 flock of sheep in Little Sugar Valley. It is said that 

 Sam Emery, of White Deer Valley, sold the hides of 

 two brown wolves to John W. Grofif, a fur buyer from 

 Lebanon County. C. W. Dickinson had tanned the 

 hide of a grey wolf which he killed in McKean County 

 in May, 1873, using it as a cushion on his mowing ma- 

 chine and land roller until 1898, when, on moving, he 

 burned it with a lot of rubbish. Many stories are told 

 of the intelligence of wolves, the remarkable case re- 

 corded in Stuart Brothers' "Lays of the Deer Forest" 

 of a blind wolf in the Highlands of Scotland that was 

 guided through the forests by a companion by means 

 of a rod held in the jaws of both is exceeded by a re- 

 cent experience of Bud Dalrymple, the famous wofler 

 of South Dakota. This hunter found a wolf which had 

 dragged a heavy trap to a cave, and was unable to get 

 about, but was fed by its comrades, the den being filled 

 with chunks of meat — which show that wolfish sagacity 

 was not all directed to rapine, but is compassionate 

 in the extreme. A fox trapped in Sweden Hill, Potter 

 County, was fed for several days by its companions, 

 as was another fox in Sullivan County. These episodes 

 were recounted in Pennsylvania newspapers in 1915 



