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imitating their cries. Edwin Grimes killed wolves the 

 same way in McKean County. For years Heizmann 

 would regale the children at cabins where he stopped 

 for the night by mimicing the howling of wolves, while 

 seated about the inglenook. "Bill" Long, also called 

 "The King Hunter," as a small boy surprised his 

 father Ijy "calling" wolves out of the forest to be shot. 

 He learned the trick, he said, from friendly Indians, 

 who frequented the elder Long's still-house. An- 

 other great wolf hunter of the White Deer Moun- 

 tains contemporary with "King" Lleizmann was 

 Jakey Hoffman, of Hightown, now White Deer. 

 His son-in-law, George Hufif, born in 183.3, states 

 that the last wolf that he (Huff) saw in the 

 White Deer Mountains was in 1853 in the "Dutch" 

 End," when he encountered a large grey wolf lying on 

 a fiat rock. He fired at the monster, missing, but the 

 bullet imbedded itself to the hilt in the boulder. 

 One of Jakey Hoffman's wolf traps, made by his 

 brother, John Hoffman, a blacksmith, of Loyalsock- 

 ville, and dated "1826," is now in the author's collection. 

 Some of the last wolves killed at the headwaters of 

 White Deer Creek were found to have their stomachs 

 filled with mud, showing that they were in a condi- 

 tion verging on starvation. They were dying out, vic- 

 tims of altered conditions. Many wolves in this re- 

 gion were poisoned by stuffing the hide of a lamb with 

 lard, in which was hidden nii.v vomica. These wolves 

 bit into the "tempting morsel" and soon succumbed, 

 three being found near the Shrader Spring, in Hope 

 Valley, one morning. 



