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ten times heavier than a fox. You say a large dog 

 was badly chewed up by this animal. Now, Mr. Con- 

 tributor, we will wager $100 that there Is not a dog in 

 Blair County that could catch a big Pennsylvania grey 

 wolf in an all-night chase. And we will wager $100 

 more that you haven't got any two dogs in the county 

 that can whip one of them. We will put up another 

 $100 that you have not got a dog in your county that 

 can catch a coyote ; and we don't believe you have a 

 dog that can whip a coyote. You say young Mr. 

 JNIoore saw this animal jumping and snapping at the 

 throats of his father's sheep. Now, Mr. Contributor, 

 if one of our Pennsylvania wolves had made a single 

 snap at a sheep's throat, that sheep would have been a 

 dead one before Mr. Moore could get his revolver out 

 of his pocket, to say nothing about shooting, for one 

 of our wolves would kill a sheep as quickly as a cat 

 could kill a rat. We have seen this trick done, and 

 would say that we were terribly surprised to see how 

 quickly it was done. I have the skin of a coyote 

 which was caught in Cherry County, Nebraska, and if 

 I wanted to fool anybody by misrepresentations, I 

 think I could fool nineteen-twentieths or more of all 

 the people in Central Pennsylvania by showing this 

 skin and saying it was a genuine Pennsylvania wolf, 

 but I have no inclination to deceive or fool any one. 

 The methods of hunting wolves in Pennsylvania are 

 only a few, as the wolf by nature is a night prowler, 

 and here in this heavy wooded mountainous country 

 the most skillful hunter could not make five cents a 



