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when it is more difficult for them to catch deer, they 

 live upon rabbits, frogs, fish, etc. I have often seen 

 them watching for fish in the Susquehannah. This 

 river abounds in a kind of fish called the white suck- 

 er, which lie in schools near the shore, sunning them- 

 selves. The wolves come slyly to the water and 

 seize them, sometimes taking two or three before 

 the school escapes to deep water. When there was 

 no bounty on wolves, we did not kill them, as they 

 were useful in driving in deer. Wolves never attack 

 cattle, colts, or hogs. They will intermix with dogs, 

 and I once knew an old she-wolf to come into the 

 setlement and entice away a number of dogs. The 

 next summer she was seen with six half-wolf pups. 

 The hunter shot her, aDd endeavored to capture the 

 pups, but they made their escape. Two of them had 

 spots on them exactly like one of the dogs. A slut 

 belonging to an Indian living at the head of Kenzua 

 Creek, had a litter of half-wolf pups. They were 

 larger than common dogs, very sharp-scented, and 

 would some times run deer. In stormy weather 

 wolves take shelter under rocks and in hollow trees, 

 which in the early spring, they also occupy at night. 

 They generally come to their nests about sunset, and 

 the hunter can shoot them as tbey arrive, by taking 

 his station upon a tree or a scaffold, where they can- 

 not scent him. 



Of foxes there are three kinds, the black, the silver 

 grey, and the red. The black fox is the largest and 

 most valuable. It is very sly and cunning, seldom 

 approaching within three or four miles of the settle- 



