124 "WOLF DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



we had with us; we set a trap in the two paths that 

 seemed to be the most traveled. Then we went back, 

 let the dog go tmder the rock again, but nothing doing. 

 Could not get a whine from the little fellows. We 

 went and cut a little sapling a little larger, for a good 

 fish pole, cut the top off at a point where the pole was 

 three-eighths of an inch in diameter, tied the largest 

 fish-hook we had on to the top end of the pole. Then 

 we crawled under the rock as far as the cavity was 

 large enough for us to go, then ran the pole on under 

 the rock^ judging from the feeling to tell whether it 

 hit a stone or hard ground or an animal. Directly I 

 was sure it hit an animal. I gave a little jerk, and at 

 that a young wolf began to 'ki-yi.' I backed out from 

 under the rock, pulling the pole with me, and I pulled 

 the little wolf out. We found the hook was fast in 

 the muscles of his foreleg close to the body. After 

 getting the hook out of the leg we put the pup into the 

 knapsack and crawled into the den again, and in less 

 than five minutes we had another one hooked. This 

 one was hooked through the left forefoot. After 

 getting him oft' the hook we crawled under again and 

 fished until we were so tired we had to quit, and as it 

 was late in the afternoon we set the remaining trap 

 in the hole and went home, taking the four wolves 

 with us. Early the next morning we took six wolf 

 traps and went back to the den. On arriving there we 

 found everything as we had left it the day before. 

 We took up the trap in the hole as cautious as possible, 

 got my hoop and let the dog go under. We soon heard 



