FOREST AND STREAM. 
[May 16, 1908. 
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Gray Wolf in Pennsylvania? 
Readers of Forest and Stream will remember 
the story of a native gray or timber wolf hav¬ 
ing been killed in May of last year by S. C. 
Long, a farmer residing at the western end of 
the Beaver Dams in Frankstown township, Blaii 
county, Pa. This wolf was shot by Mr. Long 
while in the act of killing a lamb in his orchard. 
The pelt was secured by the curator of the Car¬ 
negie Institute, Pittsburg, and was mounted and 
placed among the other specimens in the zoologi¬ 
cal department. 
It was believed to be the last native gray 
wolf in the State, but the Altoona Times an¬ 
nounces the appearance of another large gray 
wolf several days ago at the same place. This 
animal was first discovered by a neighbor of Mr. 
Long’s who saw the animal one morning in his 
orchard. It had made a raid on his sheep, and 
was chasing them when seen by the farmer, who 
not having a gun ran quickly to the house of 
Mr. Long and informed him of the appearance 
of the wolf. Long quickly got his trusty rifle, 
which laid the first wolf low, and hastened out 
to the orchard. The fierce animal was in the 
act of killing a lamb, which it had caught, but 
seeing the man approaching, dropped his prey 
and with great leaps ran across the farm lands 
to the shelter of the mountain before the farmer 
could get close enough for a shot. 
The discovery of the wolf has set the whole 
country side agog, as the wolf last May killed 
many sheep before it could be put an end to, for 
two years baffling all efforts to destroy him and 
thus causing the farmers in that neighborhood 
much trouble and expense. Every effort will 
be made to kill the animal, which will be hunted 
in the most systematic and untiring manner, as 
the farmers do- not care to again have their 
sheep slaughtered, which will undoubtedly be the 
case if the wolf is not soon put out of the way. 
This creature has the appearance of being as 
large and fierce as the other wolf, and pos¬ 
sessed of the same amount of cunning, and much 
patient skill will doubtless be required to shoot 
or trap it. It is feared there may be still more- 
wolves in that neighborhood, as the head of the 
Beaver Dam country is a wild and uninhabited 
place, seldom visited by any one except hunters, 
and it is possible that several stragglers may 
have gathered there and are now increasing. 
Wolves are generally believed to have been 
extinct in Pennsylvania for some years back, 
but it may be that a remnant of the great packs 
which once roamed over this State, lived in the 
mountain fastnesses and have been breeding un¬ 
molested and will again become plentiful like 
the black bears which were almost exterminated, 
but not having been hunted on account of their 
scarcity have been quietly increasing until they 
have again become very plentiful. 
Yellowstone Park News. 
Gardiner, Mont., May 6 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: Up to May 4 there had been born six 
buffalo calves at the new buffalo range on East 
Fork—Lamar River—possibly by this time sev¬ 
eral more have appeared. The wild bunch 
was seen on the head of East Fork and twelve 
counted by scout Wilson. 
Scout Holt made a trip across the Yellowstone 
Lake and up the river to the south boundary, 
camping in the winter cabins. He saw seven 
moose and fr.csh tracks of at least twenty-five. 
He tells me that his skis made so much noise on 
the crusted snow that the moose were alarmed, 
and that this is the reason he did not see more 
of these animals. 
There is very little snow in the park for this 
time of the year. The scouts have a hard time 
getting about through the fallen timber, where 
usually the snow is so deep as to cover it and 
make level traveling. Deep snows make easy 
snowshoeing in the mountains and timbered 
country. 
In front of town every evening we can see 
from forty to fifty antelope and thirty to forty 
mule deer feeding on the alfalfa field. 1 he 
alfalfa is now about six inches high and a 
favorite food for the game. About twenty-five 
antelope used the field every evening all last 
summer, and there is a prospect that more will 
camp there this summer with the addition of 
the mule deer. I do not remember that any 
deer summered here last year. Deer are scat¬ 
tered all along the roadway out through 
.Golden Gate. 
As far as Swan Lake flat the roads are dry 
and free from snow. Teams have been through 
to Norris Basin, and one team to the Upper 
Basin. Saddle horses have been from the Canon 
to the Lake, but nothing from Norris to the 
Canon, where the snow is deep for about six 
miles of the twelve between the stations. 
Several teams and men are at work on Gardi¬ 
ner River moving a slide that has been troubling 
the road builders for years. This is about two 
and one-half miles from this town. 
Most of the game is well back to or close to 
the summer range, with the exception of that 
already mentioned. The summer tourists will 
have a chance to see a bit of the game as they 
enter the Yellowstone Park through the Gardi¬ 
ner Gateway. There is a slight increase in the 
number of winter visitors who come up here 
to see the game. So far no one has been dis¬ 
appointed, although this has been a very open 
winter and not as much game in sight as usual. 
At last reports the Yellowstone Lake was still 
covered with ice, but it was getting rotten. The 
report that Old Faithful Geyser had gone out 
of business is unfounded. There is no doubt 
Old Faithful will continue to deserve her name 
for many years to come. T. E. H. 
A Sunday Walk. 
Millhurst, N. J., May 3. —Editor Forest and 
Stream: To-day—Sunday—being as you know 
clear and cold in the morning, I donned my over¬ 
coat, and taking along last week’s Forest and 
Stream and some lunch, went for a walk in the 
woods. After slowly tramping for several miles 
and enjoying myself immensely I came to a hill 
in the woods sloping to the south near a little 
brook. In the sunny side of a bunch if big 
trees with lots of wild honeysuckle booming 
all around I placed a lot of dry brush and on 
it some dead leaves. 
Spreading my overcoat over them I just 
sprawled out on it and lazily enj-oyed the 
beauties of nature. It was splendid there, bask¬ 
ing in the warm sunshine like a black snake, 
with the cold wind roaring through the tree- 
tops with a noise almost like thunder. 
Being so warm, bright and quiet here, many 
species of birds—robins, red-wings, song spar¬ 
rows, catbirds by the dozen, chewinks, brown 
thrushes and little bits of birds almost without 
number, among which were wrens and Mary¬ 
land yellowthroats, had gathered among the 
bushes and skunk cabbages down by the brook. 
1 heartily enjoyed the free concert of the sweet¬ 
est of bird music. 
About noon I pulled out the lunch and ate 
it, only a couple of sandwiches, but how good 
they tasted! Talk about kings on their thrones, 
Rockefellers among their oil cans or Vander¬ 
bilts among their money bags. Nary one of 
them could hold a candle—so far as solid en¬ 
joyment was concerned—to lying sprawled out 
in the warm sunshine, slowly munching away 
on that grub. 
In a few weeks, about June 15, I shall be out 
of the school, then after spending a few days 
fixing things at my home in Asbury Park for 
the summer I shall pack up some duffle and 
start for the Brush Hut and put in most of the 
summer there. 
While there I shall take particular pains to 
ascertain about the scarcity of partridges or 
ruffed grouse, of which I have heard so much, 
and will write you the facts. 
Last year when I was up there I never saw 
the chicks more plentiful. I found four broods 
and altogether at least fifty in them. A. L. L. 
[The wild honeysuckle sent is also known as 
wild azalea ] 
Nessmuk the Poet. 
Nessmuk was a philosopher. All of his poemt 
breathe it. He made up his mind early in lift 
that the vain pomp and glory of the world art 
not worth while. That to “cheat his fellow-mat 
anti rob the workman of his wage” was beneatl 
him. That the solace of the pines, enticing th< 
trout, stalking the deer, for necessity only 
canoeing, camping, life in the woods, were mon 
to be desired than all else. That communinj 
with nature in her various moods was the heigh 
of human pleasure, and who shall say him nay 
Nessmuk was authority on all out of-doo 
sports of his day. Flis little volume, “Wood 
craft” is the most practical work on campin 
out that has ever been compiled. It is th 
woodsman’s text book. The writer, when a bo? 
camped with Nessmuk often. 1 he open cam 
was his favorite; he hated a cold, wet ten 
and, around the blazing fire at night he woul 
transcribe on white birch bark some rhyme rur 
ning through his head, or after reducing a b 
of navy plug to its lowest denomination and pt 
it in his pipe, he would repeat the best poetr 
of English authors by the hour. It was 
supreme delight to camp with him and gatht 
wisdom and craft from his experiences. • , 
Nessmuk wrote not for popularity or reput; 
tion, but just because he could not help it. Itw: 
as natural for him to drop into rhyme as f< 
the rill to flow from the spring. His poetic 
nature found vent in rhymes, and while he do- 
not rank among the great poets, yet few ha’ 
breathed nature in verse as he has. 
Who treads the dirty lanes of trade 
Shall never know the wondrous things 
Told by the rugged forest kings 
To him who sleeps beneath their shade. 
Only to him whose coat of rags 
Has pressed at night their regal feet. 
Shall come the secrets strange and sweet 
Of century pines and beetling crags. 
—Felix Granger in Phila. N. American. 
