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hounding them. About break of day we would send 

 a dog out after a deer ; when he found one he would 

 drive it towards the creek where some of us were sta- 

 tioned to shoot it. If the deer should happen to cross 

 the creek without our getting a shot, we let another 

 dog after it on the other side, to drive it to the creek 

 again. If a second deer came in sight during the 

 chase we let another go after it ; and in this manner 

 we have had all the dogs out at once. Sometimes a 

 dog would drive one deer to the creek, and sometimes 

 he would bring in two, a doe and her fawn, or a doe 

 and a buck. The three dogs have, in this manner, in 

 one chase, brought in five deer. In that locality, I 

 killed, in one season, from the time we first began to 

 lire-hunt, in June, until the middle of January, forty- 

 seven deer. During one season, my brother killed, 

 of bears, elk and deer, nearly two hundred. The 

 greatest number that I killed, in any one season, of 

 the same kind of animals, was about one hundred 

 and thirty. 



In the month of June, 1801, my father with his 

 family removed to a more settled part of the country, 

 twenty-two miles down Pine Creek, near the west 

 branch of the Susquehannah and within six miles of 

 it. We took up our residence in an old barn, which 

 was partly occupied by another family. I thought I 

 had left all my hunting ; but we had been there but 

 a short time when we were told that a bear was mak- 

 ing havoc among the sheep, hogs, etc., in the neigh- 

 borhood, and that he was as large as a cow. My 

 father had retained only two rifles, one for himself 



