PISGAH AND THE BALSAMS 301 
kill you." There are many bear stories yet told, 
though the most famous of the old hunters are no 
longer here to tell them. The railway train, thunder- 
ing under the very walls of the Balsams and climbing 
across them through the high Balsam Gap, bespeaks 
a new era when people come in throngs to the 
mountains for other purposes than bear-hunting. 
