156 FIFTY YEARS A HUNTER AND TRAPPER. 



ing what was taking place, but before I could get a load into my 

 gun, the little fellow thought it best to move on. 



I took the entrails out of the two I had shot, hung them 

 up and took a lively pace to camp. Bill was already in and had 

 supper waiting. Bill asked me if I had seen any deer, and when 

 I told him what I had done, he said that he had seen a deer. I 

 told him that if he had used a little skunk eye-opener, he probably 

 would have seen some deer. 



As it had now been three or four days since we had made 

 the rounds of the bear traps, we concluded that we would not 

 spend any particular time in deer hunting until we had looked 

 all of the bear traps over. We were quite sure that some of the 

 traps would be likely to be in ia mixup with bruin as the weather 

 had been favorable for bruin to be prowling around. Further 

 we had seen several fresh tracks in the past few days. Early in 

 the morning with an extra lunch in our knapsack we started 

 out to see what luck with bruin, each taking a different route. 



Bill went to Baley Run, while I went to Conley Run. I 

 had not gone far out on my road, when I came across a man 

 that had been out as he said, hunting deer. But from the story 

 he told, I judged that he had put in the greater part of his time 

 hunting himself, and he was still lost. 



The man informed me that he was from Lockhaven, Pa., and 

 that his name was Henry Jacobs ; and that he was boarding at 

 a farmhouse on the Portage but had gotten a little mixed and 

 was unable to find his way out to his boarding place. I told him 

 that I was on my way to the Conley waters to look after some 

 bear traps, and if he wished he could go with me to the main 

 branch of the Conley. Then he could follow the stream down until 

 it emptied into the Portage, and to the road which would take 

 him to his boarding house, which Mr. Jacobs seemed pleased to 

 do. But it proved that Mr. Jacobs' destiny was in other directions. 



The first bear trap that we came to, we found a "porky" in it. 

 I could see that Mr. Jacobs was very much excited and began to 

 ask many questions as to bears and bear trapping. When we came 

 to where the second trap was setting, we found things generally 

 torn up and the trap gone, and it was plain to be seen that it 



