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corn in your belly, while you cry and whimper like an 

 old squaw." 



Then he shot the bear again, which turned and 

 rapidly climbed a small tree, where he hung, twenty 

 feet above the hunters, for a while. Then he fell to 

 the ground, quite dead, and the hunters dragged him 

 to the foot of the hill as rapidly -as they could, and 

 proceeded to skin and dress the meat, which was fat 

 and delicious. 



From Altoona Tribune of January n, 1919. 



On his twelfth birthday anniversary, Edwin Grimes 

 shot and killed a large black bear near Canoe Place, 

 (Port Allegheny, McKean County), where his parents 

 had located "the Grimes settlement" on the south 

 bank of the Allegheny, while hunting with Jacobs, 

 the Seneca bear hunter, the latter known as "Jim 

 Jacobs," and at each return of the hazy days of No- 

 vember, the Indian Summer, he wished to try for 

 another, to lengthen his list, which had grown from 

 year to year to 198 dead bears, as his eightieth birth- 

 day approached, in 1910. He resolved to try to "get" 

 two more bears on tha)t day, and went from Roulette 

 to the big Nunundah (Potato Creek) forest for that 

 purpose. 



Following an old' log road, over which great cherry 

 and pine trees had been hauled for lumber, in the 

 township of Norwich, he came to a cleared spot 

 where a lumber camp had been, at (the edge of which 

 he sat upon a log to rest in the bright sunshine of 

 the. frosty morning, there being no snow on the 



