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CHAPTER XIII. 



In 1836, hunts with his two Sons, William and John Lynn, on Meadow Mountain — 

 Kills a Buck, and finds two Bears in the Trap — Next week, Hunts on the same 

 Ground — Kills a number of Deer — Races with William in Hunting — Kills twenty 

 Deer in one week — Visits Uncle Spurgin, in Preston County, Virginia, to kill 

 some large Bucks, which he could not — Kills two of them in a couple of hours- 

 Hunts on Roman Nose — Encounters a large Bear — Wounds him — Dangerouf 

 situation — Kills an old Buck, that had baffled all the Hunters — Two Friends 

 come to Hunt — Kills an old Bear and two Cubs — Hunts on Negro Mountain — 

 Kills three fine Bucks within a few steps of each other — Pumpkins and Cream — 

 Hunts at Little Crossings — Kills six deer — Long Chase after the largest — Visits 

 the same Ground, and kills another Buck — Mrs. Cunningham and the Bee-tree 

 — Amusements of the young people — Cold weather — Goes to the Traps — Finds a 

 large Bear in a Trap, killed by another Bear after a desperate battle — Hunts on 

 Deep Creek — Kills two Deer — Goes to Little Crossings — Kills a Buck — Packs the 

 Saddle with the Turkeys killed on the way — Travels some ten to twelve miles — 

 Load weighs eighty-seven pounds — Hunts at "Milk and Honey" with two neigh- 

 bors — Kills three Deer — Abandons the bunt, on account of Rattlesnakes there. 



In October of the year 1836, myself and my two oldest 

 sons, John Lynn and William, went to my old hunting- 

 camp at Meadow Mountain to hunt. We got to the camp 

 about four o'clock ; when, having still time to hunt before 

 night set in, we all turned out ; and, as I knew where a 

 bear had fed some days before, I went to see if he had left 

 the ground ; but, finding no traces of him, I was about to 

 leave the place, when my dog winded game. 



Thinking of nothing but the bear, I followed the dog 

 until we came to a great thicket ; into which I crept 

 quietly, stepping carefully from place to place, and from 

 one log to another, until I heard something walking 

 among the dry leaves. I crept still nearer, until I found 

 that I was close enough to see what it was if the brush 

 was out of the way ; when, by creeping a little farther on. 



