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their depredations by killing a calf belonging to one 

 of our neighbors, after which they killed several hogs. 

 At that time the bears were traveling from the west 

 to the east. The Dutchman and myself started out 

 after the first and killed three which we had driven 

 up a tree. By the first of August we had killed six. 

 We did not hunt any except when they killed the 

 hogs and sheep. On the tenth of August I went 

 twenty-two miles up the creek to haul logs. We had 

 to load them in the creek, near what was called a 

 bear run-way. At this time th# bears were going 

 from the east to the west, and as they all crossed the 

 creek at the same place, they stepped in the same 

 track, so that it had the appearance of being the 

 track of but one bear. Occasionally when there were 

 three or four bears together, I would go down 

 towards where they crossed and throw stones and 

 clubs to drive them back ; but I could never make 

 them return up the hill ; they would always go down 

 the stream a short distance, and so gain the opposite 

 slwre, then come back on the bank to the old track. 

 Every time I saw a bear I marked it down, and in a 

 month I counted forty-three. I then went home, but 

 returned to work again in about four days. The first 

 bear that I saw after my return was a very large one 

 — about as large as a common sized cow, and the 

 largest I ever saw. I thought I would see what I 

 could do with him ; so I waded into the water about 

 knee deep, and commenced throwing stones at him. 

 He paid no attention to them or me either, but kept 

 on his course the same as though I had not been 



