WOLF DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



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Confirming Judge Henning's remarks on the pois- 

 oning of the wolves in the Blue Mountains, which ate 

 the glandered carcasses of horses from the War of 

 1812, Mrs. Ella Zerby Elliott, in her "Blue Book of 

 Schuylkill County," published in 1916, quotes an 

 old Pottsville settler, Jeremiah Reed, as saying that 

 the wolves died by the scores after eating the pois- 

 oned meat. Mrs. Elliott says : "In Schuylkill County 

 the depredations of wolves about butchering time in 

 the late Fall of the year, when they scented the odor 

 from the freshly killed domestic animals, were par- 

 ticularly annoying and dangerous." Mrs. John Cobb, 

 of Luzerne County, killed with a pitchfork a wolf that 

 had the impertinence to enter her barnyard one morn- 

 ing during the cold winter of 1835. 



