Via the Historical Society of Pennsylvania:
The Legend or Haunting of the Hounds of Colebrook Furnace: Lebanon County, PA | Historical Society of Pennsylvania
On April 28, 1842, the Perry County (PA) Democrat remarked that “if the ghosts of starved-to-death animals were permitted to haunt the men who have so cruely [sic] used them, we have some men in our mind’s eye who would have little quiet sleep about these days.”
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