The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1879-01-26
"IN III, SLIDES o, DEATH"
tncie sue HcevCs's Terrible Christmas Dnv
FIaht Win Two Black bears.

noun lns Of Pike. Wayne. and Monroe Coun- |
lies. among which ho was born and raised. |
Tor n.iy years he has been a hunter and trap
Dor. aud now. Mt tho age Of 65, Is halo and
hearty rs a buck and tough Ms n wild cat His
fiyori,o hunting ground is northeastern Penn
sylvanin. in the POcono region. on the borders
of Monroe and Pike. He came 20 Honesdalc on
tho Salon stage to take tho Eric hallway for
Potter County.
Il had Il tol'be lively time Christmas Day In
tn shades o. Death" said Uncle Silc. IAN
think I'd laugh m'soli T. death yit 7 hadn't
lost two o. tn best dogs I ever made music in
tn woods r chawod bars guet t. fiddle
strlngs IN n rough n tumble"
Thoro are dense forests OF hcmock and
bocch. and intricate laurel swamps and tangled
thickots. where tho Lchigh and Wallenpau-
pack Rivers have their sources. on the borders
OF Wayne Pike. Luzernc. and Monroe counties
The Wilderness lies directly ia the course taken
by the fugitlves from Wyoming in 1913. Within
its trcncherous and pathlcss depths many Of
them-men. women. and children--met death
from starvation and exposure. or fell victims TO
wild bcnsts Those who escaped from the
wilderness and reached the settlements on the
Delaware called 1t the shades Of Death"
Lumbcrmen and tanners have made groat in
roads upon its forests during the past forty
years. but it still affords secure haunts for wild
animals Of various kinds. and Is IA iavolite re-
sort for the hunter and hound.
",rh,,,d hean ,atS Il, ,b, lurhor Gamma y, tho
49,, h,or n ho,,,,i,,, ,r,,,r, T,,, nj
swamp FIR n week r So" said Uncle Sile. IN
Hta;o ranch on, ,ha, ,y,, emo la, ~ 500 y
they was much sign o fur. N II they was. N the
bars had any pluck. { have ahali day r SOS
reeeryash'n with 'em. lust fr change o diet.
ca l hadn't killed nothin' sirongcr'n caty-
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Out o IN swamp durlh III hlsn.' NJ t"n
back his nest in the mountain. Ihlhkih
. u, dn,s "A he ont uooty auick
-, 80. IT., ho. "a an,
Iuuorcd III track Hhoul 'ih t"u "'i - ~.
straight L tn pond, n then half way round
-, ,bnn ri,,ht nm IN, sila ~ Raid Hin. half A mill
"'n ''""' W - '''N
from the swamp
Il know'd every inch o. tn ground there
,or "a hnr,sd >, n hundred times Finy
~ !" """1N i, !,
two years ago. whom wore comm J.
gear or | killed m fust deer in Sweet Flat
p.n1 INC was game I'm M woods then.
AO~' ~ ""9 So 80 - ., r.
reckn. Deer run IN droNrs ike catue' IoI