14 THE BLACK BEAR OF PENNSYLVANIA 



of doing. So I used strong language and bade him 

 to quit barking, which he did. 



"Presently my horses began stamping, turned 

 around and ran away, getting fast against a tree, one 

 of them trying to go forward on each side of it. I 

 went to see about untangling them, and 'there stood 

 a bear with yellow legs, within four rods of me ! The 

 bear wanted >to come right where I stood ! With my 

 pick-lever I stepped right up to him, thinking I could 

 kill a bear with a club ! 



"The bear was determined to cross the slide, and 

 he came right along toward me and put his fore-feet 

 on the banking log opposite me, growling a little 

 and showing his white teeth to me. I told him to. stay 

 right where he was; that I could kill and carry home 

 any black bear, with yellow legs, in Pennsylvania, 

 using nny lever as a club, for the purpose. 



"But he only .grinned harder, so I struck him as 

 hard as I could, right on the head ! Or I tried to, and 

 hit only his arm, as he fended off my blow, nearly 

 jerking the pick-lever from my hands, and growled 

 at me, as only a bear can growl, springing up the bank, 

 opposite, growling, 'You better leave me alone !' " 



SECTION II 



Several hunters' camps in the Counties of Potter 

 and McKean were visited by W. R. Grimes, son of 

 the late Edwin R. Grimes, during the recent hunting 

 season, but he doubts that fifty bears were slain in 



