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merman mowed up to the fence he took a stone and 

 went to fasten his scythe on the cradle, and then he 

 heard the bear run away from the sheep carcass. 

 Then he put the dog on the bear but that was all 

 there was to it one sheep less. 



Mr. Zimmerman kept the rest of the sheep until 

 the following summer, when the bears ate up all the 

 nice young lambs, as well as some of the older ones. 

 Mr. Zimmerman loaded the rest of the sheep into the 

 ox wagon, and his son, Jake, took them out to 'Squire 

 Price. Mr. Zimmerman never tried to raise sheep 

 from that time on, which goes to show that bears are 

 fond of sheep meat. 



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Bear Story No. 2 



About the year 1871 a High German by 'the name 

 of Henry Walters lived at the old Binger place, 

 two and a half miles west of the Fourth Gap, now on 

 the Bald Eagle State Forest. This man, Mr. Walters, 

 had gone afoot down to Elimsport and on his way 

 home it got dark on him about at the old Hoffey mill 

 but the moon was shining and when Mr. Walters got 

 up to about the Hogback road, now known as Hunter's 

 Spring, he saw what he supposed to be a big colored 

 man. He afterwards told Mr. Zimmerman that he 

 had seen a big Negro standing alongside of the road 

 and the man never said a word, and Zimmerman told 



