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"Restless Oaks." The stone bear pen was carefully 

 built, and will doubtless stand for many years to 

 come, 'to cause surprise and conjecture for ensuing 

 generations. 



For sheer nerve in photographing a live bear in the 

 open, J. Herbert Walker, former scoutmaster of Lew- 

 isburg, now one of the editors of the Scranton "Re- 

 publican," takes the palm. Mr. Walker, while out 

 trout fishing in April, 1918, came face to face wkh a 

 huge black bear, with only a rotted log between, on 

 Swift Run, Union County. Having his Kodak with 

 him, the courageous young naturalist, instead of run- 

 ning away, photographed the open-mouthed monster, 

 securing an excellent negative. Mr. Walker reports 

 often ha\ing seen bears in the vicinity of Weikert, 

 Union County, where with several companions he 

 maintained a hunting cabin. 



Air. Chatham tells of a huge bla'ck bear that visited 

 the village of McElhattan, Clinton County, one night 

 many years ago, carrying off a hog from the Chatham 

 home, although his grandfathers, Hall and Chatham, 

 two old hunters, were in the house at the time. It 

 dragged the carcess to a small run near the McGuire 

 place, where it left it until the next night, when, it re- 

 turned and finished the repast, although during the 

 day, dogs had run the bear a dozen miles or more. 

 Mountain climbers and nature lovers with romantic in- 

 stincts, coming upon the rotten timbers of old time log 

 bear pens on the summits of lonely mountains, are 

 apt to imagine that these "log cabins" were once the 



