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heim farmer, was working in one of his fields with his 

 son Harry in IMarch, 1908, when they saw a black wolf 

 trotting along in a southerly direction, evidently head- 

 ed for the Seven ilountains. This gave rise to the 

 story that the wolves were returning to the Seven 

 ^fountains. It is said that wolves howled in Treaster 

 A'alley and High A'alley during the spring of 1908. It 

 is claimed that wolf tracks were noticed in the Bare 

 Meadows in the winter of 1009. But that is the last 

 heard of the Black Avengers. A pack of Centre 

 Count)' grey wolves was reduced in numbers by 

 Samuel Askey, of Snow Shoe, who killed ninety-eight 

 between 1820 and 1813. A pack of brown wolves hung 

 on in the Buffalo Mountain Country, and ranged up to 

 the ^^'hite Deer ■Mountains until April, 1853. Fam- 

 ished, they attacked some dogs belonging to a raft 

 moored at the foot of Bald Eagle ^Mountain, near 

 Aluncy, but most of them were shot by raftsmen. That 

 was the last heard of the pack, which was undoubtedly 

 the last pack in that part of Pennsylvania. Charles and 

 James Huff, of White Deer, Union County, chased grey 

 wolves in the White Deer ^Mountains in 1875. The 

 three packs of brown wolves in Clearfield County were 

 harassed by trappers, most of them being killed bv 

 Seth Iredell Xelson and his associates. By 1890 they 

 were reduced to three or four scattering individuals. 

 There was a big pack of grey wolves in McKean 

 County during the first half of the nineteenth century. 

 At times it numbered a hundred animals, old and 

 young. Settlements along the Alleghany divided it, 



