30 WOLF DAYS IN PENNSYLVAXIA. 



wolfcr has this to say concerning the howling of 

 wohes : "I wish I could describe this howl, but the 

 best comparison I can give would be to take a dozen 

 railroad whilstles, braid them toa;ether, and then let 

 one strand after another drop off, the last peal so 

 1 right tuly piercing as to go through your heart and 

 soul ; you would feel as though your hair stood straight 

 on end if it was ever so long.' The Brown brothers, 

 of Susquehanna County, caught many woh-es in pit- 

 falls. A Susquehanna County wolf hunter, contem- 

 porary with the Brown boys, is quoted in Blackman's 

 llistor\ as describing the wishes of that region a-^ 

 "coarse, grey-haired, uglv looking things." \\'o'.\es 

 were prc\alent in Pike County as late as IS.'iO. Joseph 

 Brooks, a Yorkshireman who died in lS:i\\ made a 

 failure of his woolen-goods manufacturing near Oing- 

 man's Ferry because the wcilves destroyed the sheep 

 in large lumibers, while the lambs succumbed from 

 eating too much sheep laurel or "Lamn-kill." Tlie site 

 of this unfortunate '\-enture is now called the "(.leorge 

 \\'. Childs Park," having been given to the Common- 

 wealth of Pennsylvania by the widow of the famous 

 editor and philanthropist. One of the most famous 

 wolf hunters in Pennsylvania was "King" (Meury) 

 Pleizmann, "The Bear Trapper," who died near Boy- 

 ersville, now called ^lazeppa. Union County, in lS!)."i. 

 Everv fall this eccentric man, who was by profession 

 a maker of wooden pumps, would place his trapping 

 outfit in his saddle-bags and go to the ^^ hite Deer 

 Mountains wiiere he trapped until spring. He cap- 

 tured man\ woh-es, luring them out of the forests hv 



