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WOLF DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



be living in the Cameron County wilds today, he be- 

 lieves, but for forest fires, the lack of food supply, 

 •and, above all, reckless poisoning. According to Seth 

 Iredell Nelson, a man named William Bonsai, while 

 riding horseback through a forest in Clearfield Coun- 

 ty, killed a wolf with a club; that was about 1891 or 

 1892. J. E. Cleveland, of Bradford County, driving a 

 pair of fractious colts from Fox Centre, Sullivan 

 County, to his home in Canton in the fall of 1877, en- 

 countered a large wolf in the road which badly fright- 

 ened' the team. Ebenezer Leach, of Luzerne County, 

 told of a fawn in Leggett's Gap pursued closely by 

 two wolves, which ran up to him and placed its head 

 between his legs for protection. 



