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Common weaKli w licre, uiidoi- domes! icaled fowls or in 

 incubatiH-s they weie hatelied out, and (lie young ones 

 were sold for the 50 eents hountv iind.*r tht- Ael of 

 I88r>. 



WOLVES WERE BAD NEIGHBORS. 



Years ago, when our sturdy, brave-hearted, indus- 

 trious and hard-working pioneer lathers had their 

 iliut-locks at all times by their sides, ever ready to 

 battle with the treacherous and cunning- Indians and 

 other wild forest animals, the ravenous, howling, and 

 lleet-footed Wolf held high carnival here, but now 

 this i)redatory animal, like the Indian of Revolution- 

 ary days, has passed away. 



Illustrative of the destructive nature of the prowling 

 bands of Wolves which formerly infested our Com- 

 monwealth, the following extract is taken from the 

 note-book of Mr. C. W. Dickinson, of Norwich, Mc- 

 Kean county. Pa. 



A TERROR TO SHEEP OWNERS. 

 "The Wolf was a terror to the sheep owners for, like the 

 Indian, he wanted to kill as long as there was a sheep left. 

 In 1869 Wolves killed twentj'-eight sheep in the month of May 

 for a neighbor of mine; they killed fourteen each night; they 

 made but two raids on them, and there were only two Wolves 

 each night. These two Wolves had a litter of whelps. I know 

 this to be a fact, for I followed them to their lair and captured 

 the old slut and five whelps. From the 18th day of May, 1869, 

 to May 15th, 1872, I caught fifteen Wolves and crippled three 

 more. I think I have seen where wolves have killed one hun- 

 dred and fifty sheep, at least. I have seen where wolves have 

 killed deer a good many times. The last Gray Wolf killed in 

 this county was taken by a boy on the Kinzua creek, in 1886." 



FOLLOWED HUMAN BEINGS. 



Mr. Abraham Neveling, of Coalport, Pa., mentions 

 that in 183G he knew a band of Wolves to kill, in one 

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