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others along White Deer Creek to join him to return 

 to the bear den and help to kill the bear, each party 

 having a hunting dog along. 



"When they came 'to tjhe bear den, old 'Daddy' 

 Lushbach, as he was called, set his old flintlock rifle 

 up at a big white pine tree, saying: 'Now, boys, I 

 will crawl into the bear hole and chase him out, and 

 you fellows shoot him/ and he crawled into the den. 

 As soon as the bear got the old hunter's breath, he 

 gave a snarl. Then Lushbach backed out of the hole 

 and said : 'Look out, fellows, he is coming,' and out 

 came a 300-pound bear, and in the confusion John 

 Zimmerman's valuable hunting dog was shot, and the 

 men came near getting into a general old-fashioned 

 fight as -to whose fault it was that the dog was shot. 

 After some tall wrangling and 'Daddy' Lushbach 

 shaming them all out, they got settled without a fight 

 and went home rejoicing and had a great bear meat 

 and corn bread feast." 



"Another noted bear hunter and trapper by name 

 of Jerome Prinzegaff living at High Town, now called 

 White Deer, (Union County) had what they called 

 'bear pens' built along White Deer Creek and White 

 Deer Mountain as far up as die Rock Oak Spring and 

 Kettle Hole, or where the old beaver dam was, and 

 many a bear he caught. This man was known 

 all over the country, as he was a fine harness maker 

 by trade and made most of the harness for the three 



