The rich had their foxhounds, while every poor white and many negroes had from one to half a dozen curs--all of which canines were likely to enjoy the sport of sheep killing.

Mr.Richard Peters, a well informed farmer of Pennsylvania, said that wherever the country was much broken wolves were to be found and bred prodigiously.
"I lay not long ago at the foot of South Mountain, in York county, in this State, in a country very thickly settled, at the house of a Justice of the Peace.

Through the night I was kept awake by what I conceived to be a jubilee of dogs, assembled to bay the moon.

But I was told in the morning, that what disturbed me, was _only_ the common howling of wolves, which nobody there regarded.

When I entered the _Hall of Justice_, I found the 'Squire giving judgment for the reward on two wolf whelps a countryman had taken from the bitch.