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ton County, tells of both black and cinnamon bears 

 brought there annually by travelling mountebacks, and 

 how the children were excited when the bears were put 

 in box stalls at the old Washington Inn stables for the 

 night. In Juniata County, near McAllisterville, where 

 the young scions of the Ulster Scots carried out a tra- 

 dition of their forefathers by holding shooting matches, 

 like the festival of the Popinjay, described by Sir 

 Walter Scott, a whole raft of these blue-blooded youths 

 who were competing for a prize, with the old Indian 

 marksman Shawnee John, late of Captain Parr's Com- 

 pany of riflemen as referee, were thrown into panic by 

 the sudden appearance in their midst of a five-hundred' 

 pound red bear, from Shade Mountain. They were so 

 flustered, that they allowed Bruin to get away in the 

 excitement. Unique in the annals of bear hunting was 

 old Leonard Faler, (originally Faillaires, of Huguenot 

 descent), of Indiantown Gap, Lebanon County, a not- 

 ed Nimrod of the Blue Mountains, who always tracked 

 bears to their caves and went in after them, killing 

 them with his bear-knife in hand-to-hand conflicts. 



It is related that he refused to speak to one of his 

 sons for a long time because he shot a bear, and in 

 the open. Inoffensive as they generally are, bears will 

 fight when their rights are infringed. John S. Hoar, 

 of Milroy (Mifflin County) tells how his grand- 

 father, William Johnson, an early hunter at the Kettle, 

 in Mifflin County, once came upon a panther and a 

 bear fighting as to which should cross a certain log 

 over Laurel Run, in Detweiler Hollow. They fought 



