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went off; the ground was as bare as summer time for 

 about two weeks. During this time the wolves came 

 and cleaned up the carcass of that sheep. This was in 

 January, 1879, and since that time the writer has not 

 seen or heard of a wolf track being seen in snow in this 

 part of Pennsylvania, except the two cripples which 

 were both killed in this County later on. In the 

 seventies the writer got the left hind foot of a wolf 

 in a steel trap. The wolf had got the body of the trap 

 over a knot on an old log. As the trap could not turn 

 around the swivel in the chain it was useless and he 

 twisted his foot off at the ankle joint and got away. 

 Now this was the same wolf the two boys killed on 

 the Kinzua Creek in 1886. A man by the name of 

 Albert Goodwin took a fore foot off of a wolf in a 

 bear trap in the fall of 1817. This wolf was caught 

 by Zack Carl in 1881 or 1882, and tht only track seen 

 of a grey wolf in this part of the State by any hunter 

 or trapper after Carl caught the one he got, was the 

 tracks of the wolf with a hind foot off. And after the 

 boys killed that one on the Kinzua there has not a 

 single track or sign of a grey wolf .been seen in North- 

 western Pennsylvania by any hunter or trapper. Now, 

 at the date of the killing of the wolf in 1886, the large 

 piece of forest in this locality starting at Gardeau, on 

 the W. N. Y. & P. R. R., traveling a little south of 

 West to Johnsonburg, was about forty miles ; starting 

 at Clermont, in this county, and go in a Southerly di- 

 rection through this same forest to St. Mary's, in Elk 

 County, the distance is about twenty-five miles. At 



