86 WOLF DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



The celebrated Ethan Allen Crawford, born in 

 1792, thus described the method used by the wolves 

 in the White Mountains of New Hampshire in devour- 

 ing a sheep : "They generally took no more than they 

 wanted at a time. They select the finest and fattest, 

 and on him perform a Curious act in butchering. We 

 have found, after they have visited the flocks, a skin 

 perfectly whole, turned flesh side out, with no other 

 mark upon it, excepting the throat, where there was a 

 regular slit cut, as though it had been cut with a 

 knife, down as far as the forelegs; the flesh all eaten 

 out and the legs taken off, down as far as the lowest 

 joint; the head and back bone left attached to it; the 

 pelt left in the field, but a few rods from the house; 

 they would sometimes set up a howling, and a more 

 terrific and dismal noise I never wish to hear than 

 this, in a clear still night. Their sound would echo 

 from one hill to another, and it would seem that the 

 woods were filled and alive with them." Crawford 

 kept a pet wolf, the antics of which are told of graphi- 

 cally in his wife's book, "History of the White Moun- 

 tains." The wolf was so tame that it rode on the box 

 seat of a stage-coach alongside of the driver from 

 Colebrook to Lancaster, in the "Granite State." A 

 ring hunt held in the Sandwich Range, in that state, 

 in 1830, resulted in the death of four wolves. The 

 rest of the pack "broke through" and escaped into the 

 forests. 



