72 WOLF DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



the time of the above dates there were probably two 

 dozen hunters' cabins located at various points in this 

 forest, and they were usually occupied from the latter 

 part of October until December 31st, and none of them 

 ever reported seeing a wolf track after the Fall and 

 fore part of Winter of 1885, and for four or five years 

 prior to 1885 they saw no wolf signs, only of one or 

 the other of these wolves which had a foot off. Now, 

 the writer is certain there was not a single wolf raised 

 in this section in the last thirty-four or thirty-five 

 years. If a pair of wolves had raised a litter of whelps 

 anywhere in this section the damage to the owners of 

 sheep for a radius of thirty miles would have created 

 excitement enough so it would be known for a hundred 

 miles around that neighborhood. As to the Potter 

 County wolf story, we would like to state some facts 

 in regard to this statement. While we remember very 

 well of reading the account of this at the time it hap- 

 pened, we wish to state a few facts in regard to this 

 subject. Col. Noah Parker, an old hunter, who lived 

 at Gardeau in the southeastern part of Norwich 

 Township close to the Potter County line, went to 

 Colorado in 1881 for the express purpose of killing an 

 elk, and when he returned from Colorado he brought 

 home a female coyote. He made a dog house for it 

 and chained it up, as he dare not allow it to run loose. 

 Later on he bred this coyote to a dog he kept and the 

 coyote raised a litter of pups, but they proved to be a 

 lot of thieves. They would kill sheep or poultry and 

 steal all the meat around the premises unless it was 



