"irr. Joseph McCuIly and wife were on their way to the 

 grist mill at Janesville; a colt was following the sled and the 

 Wolf came in pursuit; it followed within a mile of the settle- 

 ment. Mr. McCuUy aroused me in the early morning and re- 

 lated the facts in the case, and I took the track of the animal 

 and in a few hours shot him." 



A DOCTOR'S TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE. 



About the year 1845 Wolves were abundant in 

 Toniliiekon Valley, between Catawissa and Hazletoii. 

 where, aeeordinij to nry friend. Dr. Thomas C.Thornton, 

 they often ataeked luiinan beings, destroyt^ the set- 

 tlers' cattle, slieep. pigs and poultry and devoured 

 game. When the Catawissa railroad, a part of the 

 riiiladelpliia and Reading systt^n, was being built, Dr. 

 Thomas A. H. Thornton, a practioing ph.vsician and 

 ihe father of Dr. Thomas C. Thornton, now a promi- 

 nent medieal practitioner of Lewisbuig, Pennsylvania, 

 one cold .\iituniii iiiulil was called out of bed to visit 

 a patient nboiii iwciuy iiiiles fioni his lioiiu'. At that 

 time there were no regular roads as we now have. In 

 their place the traveler used narrow paths or trails, 

 whieli, in many places, were illy defined, and an inex- 

 ]ierienced person often lost his way when endeavoring 

 to follow them. This was the misfortune of Dr. Thorn- 

 ton who, in his anxiety to reach the bedside of the 

 sufferer, attempted to make a short cut. He lost his 

 way and for one week wandered through the wilder- 

 ness: and. having no gun. was obliged to subsist on 



