126 WOLF DAYS IN PENNSYLVANIA. 



sack was gone, and the two wolves with it. The 

 thought struck us the boy might have gone to the den, 

 so we ran to it, and got there just in time to see that 

 boy back out from under the rock with the seventh 

 wolf. Now, we don't believe that there was another 

 boy of his size and age within the State that could 

 have been hired to go there into that den. My cousin, 

 whose name is F. A. Gallup, is still alive, and resides 

 in the vicinity of Smethport. We kept our traps set 

 in the paths for two months, and did not catch a thing 

 except hedgehogs, rabbits and woodchucks." 



According to Dr. McKnight, Dickinson was not the 

 only Pennsylvania hunter who caught wolves with 

 hooks. In the good doctor's "Pioneer Outline His- 

 tory of Northwestern Pennsylvania," it is related how 

 Bill Long, "The King Hunter," in 1845, used an iron 

 hook to draw eight pups out of a wolf's den four 

 miles from the present town of Sigel, Jefferson 

 County. Holmes Wiley, a noted wolf hunter of Gar- 

 rett County, Maryland, whose expeditions often ex- 

 tended into Southern Pennsylvania, made a specialty 

 of entering wolf dens and capturing the pups alive, 

 often encountering and vanquishing the justly infur- 

 iated parent wolves. 



