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some root and he could not get out quick enough, and 

 the bear pushed him along out, tore his sweater, but 

 Mr. Calhoun got his rifle and still killed the bear be- 

 fore he got very far away." 



"Not -to lose sight of wha>t they call Bear Wallow* 

 or Bear Lakes on top of White Deer Mountain just 

 north of Mile Run, there are two or three deep cold 

 springs where the bears come to in the month of Sep- 

 tember to wallow, and where one can see trails of mud 

 dug out through the brush and ferns as far as twenty- 

 five to thirty yards distance, jusit like hogs coming 

 out of a wallow hole. There are a few old' gum trees 

 standing near this spring, but they will not live long, 

 as tihe bears and cu>bs have broken all branches down 

 on them from playing up and down the trees." 



"The biggest bear ever taken in Pennsylvania was 

 killed by the noted hunter and hermit of Sugar Val- 

 ley, Clinton County, Charley Engle. This bear was 

 started away at the head of Pine Creek (Tiadaghton) 

 Lycoming County, crossed near Green's Gap, was 

 found in a lair at or near Pine Creek, Centre County, 

 a distance from where he started of eighty-five miles. 

 Samuel Engle, the noted lumberman, hauled the bear 

 to Jersey Shore in a two-horse sled.. They said the 

 bear filled the whole sled box from end to end. It 

 weighed 600 pounds." 



