82 THE BLACK BEAR OF PENNSYLVANIA 



is said nearly his last request before he died was to 

 see this bear skin, which he had made into a rug. 



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Bear Story No. 4 



In November. 1915, the following party of hunters 

 were stopping at the Zimmerman farm, their names 

 being : 



Russell C. Smith, Charles Harris and John Street, 

 of Philadelphia; Claud M. Hower, Lost Creek, 

 Schuylkill County ; Walter Berkelbach, Shaft, Schuyl- 

 kill County; A. H. Feterolf, Mt. Carmel ; M. F. 

 Wolf, Hernd'on; I. S. Wolf, Sunbury; William 

 Christian, W. T. Speicer, Ed. Rudy and F. B. Evans, 

 of Danville, and several others. 



While out looking for deer signs in a fresh track- 

 ing snow, they came across some new bear tracks 

 which excited the whole party, and all lhands got 

 ready to have a real old-fashioned bear hunt, making 

 out how they would attack the bear. As the track 

 was only a small cub track, the suspicion of some of 

 the party was aroused and upon clo^e examination 

 it was found the bear (tracks were made by Jake 

 Zimmerman's daughter Hilda, then eleven years old. 

 So after some great laughing and guying one another 

 the bear ihunt was abandoned, the party not forgetting 

 the joke played on them by Hilda to this day 1921. 



Russell C. Smith visited the Zimmerman farm just 

 a short time ago, where he recognized the girl and had 

 a good laugh over it. 



