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and plants. The wolves pursued him most of the 

 time, but on two or three occasions when they came 

 near he drove them away with the ammonia. 



He finally had the good fortune to reach a settlement 

 where he found friends, shelter and food. He was laid 

 up for one week before he reached his home, where it 

 required fully a month for him to recover from the 

 hardships and exposure due to this thrilling and unus- 

 ual experience." 



Wolves were fond of "surrounding" human beings. 

 James Wylie Miller, born April 29, 1838, and now re- 

 siding at McElhattan, Clinton County, tells of the lum- 

 ber camp where he worked on Hunt's Run, Cameron 

 County, being surrounded by a huge pack of wolves, 

 which trotted around the building all night long, yelp- 

 ing and howling. That was in the winter of 1857. 

 Philip H. Lamey, born in 1830, tells of his hunting 

 camp near McCall's Dam, on White Deer Creek, be- 

 ing surrounded by a pack of wolves in 1848. They 

 smelled some bacon hanging inside, and the hunters 

 could see the brutes' eyes as they eagerly peered 

 through the cracks in the logs. Emmanuel Harman 

 and companions were surrounded by wolyes at a camp 

 on Grove Run, Cameron County, in 1852. 



Earl W. Motz, the famous School Boy Hunter of 

 Woodward, Centre County, thus describes the slaying 

 of the last wolf in Penn's Valley, Centre County. 



"The last wolf known to have been killed in Eastern 

 Penn's Valley was taken in the late 50's. It was killed 

 at the 'Thomas Hosterman Farm,' about two miles 



