THE BLACK BEAR OF PENNSYLVANIA 53 



Adam Staake was on a hunt on Kammerdiner Run, 

 Clinton County, when he saw a nice, fat cub along 

 the road. He got off his horse, put it under his arm 

 and started' 'to ride 'home with it. 



It was not long before the mother bear appeared, 

 running after the horse and snorting violently. 

 Staake's mount was not noted for its speed, so he 

 threw the cub to its mother, and continued his way 

 without further molestation. Captain J. G. Dillin, 

 noted Conservationist,, says that Kelly Aikey, a well- 

 known hunter of Hartleton, Union County, was hunt- 

 ing foxes one day in February in the Seven Moun- 

 tais, when, on the top of a very open, blowy moun- 

 tain, he came upon something that looked like a closely 

 woven canopy of rhododendron boughs. 



Tearing it apart, he found within a she-bear with 

 two small cubs. He killed the mother bear, and bring- 

 ing the cubs home, was able to rear them on the bottle. 



Mr. Chatham states that there was no particular 

 date for bears to hibernate; they went in when they 

 felt that the weather had become steadily cold, and 

 come out when 'they considered the winter's backbone 

 broken. Captain Dillin says that a, bear, like a 

 groundhog, will come out in midwinter if it is warm 

 enough, for example, on Candlemas Day, and may 

 even venture out several times in a winter. Mr. 

 Fleming states that Pennsylvania bears migrate on 

 regularly defined paths, following the same routes 

 every year, which is also a conspicuous trait of the 



