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the event, we can't see why he should have been so 

 shy about his being known. Now, we challenge Mr. 

 'County Contributor,' Hollidaysburg, as the writer 

 styled himself, to produce any atithority to show 

 where a den of young wolves were raised in 

 the State of Pennsylvania, outside of McKean 

 County, within the last forty-five years. Next, 

 we challenge you to show us a single citizen of Blair 

 County who ever saw a grey wolf outside of a cage in 

 Blair County. Dare you come out and state when or 

 about what time the last bounty was paid on a wolf 

 in your county? Dare you state that you ever saw a 

 grey wolf outside of a cage or a zoo or park in Penn- 

 sylvania or anywhere else? Now, Mr. County Con- 

 tributor, we know that there has not been a single 

 den of young wolves raised within this State in the 

 last thirty-six years. Had that Beaver Dam coyote 

 been a grey wolf, he could not have been less than 29 

 years old ! At that age, would he have had as nice 

 teeth as you saw? Now, ^Ir. Contributor, will you 

 tell us what is the natural age of a wolf ? In your 

 description of the Beaver Dam animal, you could not 

 give any better description of a coyote if you had one 

 to look at. That short, bushy tail jou speak of is 

 about the only sure mark that you can rely on to tell a 

 large coyote from a small grey wolf. The old-time 

 hunters in this locality used to call our wolves the 

 "long-tailed hunters." Then, again, you say the people 

 thought this animal was a big grey fox. Just think 

 of that! One of our Pennsylvania wolves is eight or 



