50 WOLF DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



north of Woodward, and was one of the large black- 

 species found in this region at that time. 



The wolves, thirteen in number, first appeared in 

 September at the farms in this section. They killed 

 six sheep and wounded a number more the first night. 

 The farmers heard them howl as they went into the 

 woods about daybreak the next morning. 



The farmers who lived in the neighborhood, the 

 Hostermans, the Garys, A^onadas and Hinksons, 

 hunted and set traps for the wolves, but were unable 

 to kill any of them. The wolves left in a few weeks 

 and did not return until December of the same year. 



About Christmas the pack again came into the val- 

 ley. They killed a heifer, which had been left in the 

 fields, and devoured a portion of it. Several inches of 

 snow covered the ground at this time, and the farmers 

 tracked the wolves to Hosterman's Gap, and from there 

 east into Pine Creek Hollow. The wolves appeared 

 every night, and all efforts to trap them were in vain. 

 One night two dogs which belonged to the Hostermans 

 followed the wolves and drove them into the woods ; 

 there the wolves turned on the dogs and killed one of 

 them and ate about half of its carcass. 



The farmers placed the remains of the dog in a 

 tree and the carcass of the heifer on the ground and 

 set traps around the carcass of the heifer. In the 

 morning the heifer was untouched, but the wolves had 

 the snow tramped down under the tree in which the 

 dog ^vas placed in their efforts to get the dog. 



At last a trap was set at a place on a small stream 



