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settling on, he was surrounded in the dense forest by 

 a pack of snarhng, snapping wolves. The ugly brutes 

 played about his feet all night in a most tantalizing 

 fashion, severely trying his nerves and' temper, he 

 being, of course, unarmed. At about daybreak the 

 wolves departed, leaving Penn to get back to civiliza- 

 tion as best he could. Ever afterwards he referred to 

 the hill where he had been tormented by the wolves 

 as "Mount Misery" and the hill where emerged from 

 the forest in safety as "Mount Joy." 



-F 'P 'I' 'T 



Juliana Barnes, or Berners, an early English hunt- 

 ress, born about 1388, like other writers of the period, 

 places the wolf among the four animals of venery, or 

 sport royal, the others being the hart, hare and boar, 

 in her "Book of St. Albans." (Published after her 

 death.) 



It is a singular circumstance that the Eovett family, 

 who were noted as wolf hunters in England in the 

 "Middle Ages" — their arms are three wolves, passant, 

 sprang into prominence as wolf hunters in the Black 

 Forest of Pennsylvania during the second' half of the 

 Nineteenth Century. Their name is said to be derived 

 from Euvet, or Loup, meaning ivolf. 



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"Jack" Allen, a New Hampshire hunter, (born in 

 1835) is said by the noted author, Charles E. Beals, Jr., 



