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and liberated to be puiisui'd by hounds, from which il 

 escaped, lo be subsequently taken as a genuine exam 

 pie of a Pennsylvania Wolf. 



WOLVES IN TIOGA COUNTY. 



Up ill Tioga county, the section which for several 

 years has so well and faithfully been represented in 

 our State Legislature by Hon. W. T. Merrick, three 

 Wolves were killed in the autumn of 189G. 



In support of such an important record the follow- 

 ing paragraph is clipped from the Athens (Pa.) News, 

 January 29th, 1800: 



"Last fall Charles Lee"s circus and menagerie was sold out 

 at Canton by the Sheriff, and among- other animals three 

 coyotes or prairie wolves were sold for fifty cents each to 

 Charles Kerby. He kept them tied up in his dooryard for a 

 couple of months and then took them over into Tioga county in 

 a box, and a wolf 'hunt' was held. Kerby made affidavit lo 

 the killing of the wolves and collected the bounty of $30 from 

 the county commissioners, telling' them a 'fairy tale,' about 

 his exploits in the mountains of Union, where he alleged the 

 dogs ran the wolves and he shot them." 



SHOULD SUCH PRACTICES EXIST? 



This kind of work is "legal," that is. if I am co-rrectly 

 iiifoimed about the bounty law, which allows a pre- 

 mium of ten dolars each, with additional fees to the 

 local olticials before whom the affidavit of killing is 

 made. It was also considered to be in accordance 

 with the letter of the law, when, under the provisions 

 of the "Scalp Act of 1885," Hawks, which were caught 

 alive in traps in neighboring states and brought over 

 the line into Pennsylvania and killed, to pay for their 

 "heads." The eggs of several kinds of birds of prey 

 were, it is said, also collected in Ohio, and other ad- 

 joining states, carried into different counties of this 



