Baton Rouge tri-weekly gazette & comet. [volume] (Baton Rouge, La.) 1865-18??, 1868-05-28
M - Communicates
THAT LAs,r GREAT DEER HUNTIN
WEST BATON ROUGE.

Everybody wants to kill at least one deer
and out of fifty hunters, if deer is killed
during one season, tits doing very well
and the reason will presently be explained
Our hunting day i generally saturda.
| (hunters having all gotto be to good t,
hunt on Sunday, and on that day ever.
hunter is up at half-past 2 in the morning
SO as to take an early start, andsthe poo
wife, the daughter, the sisters, are all pE
in requisition to get Mr.. hunter ready tt
start out; for before leaving home he mus
have his warm cup of coffee, his lunch, hi
tobacco pouch filed and his pipe fllee
and lit before he can venture out, and it ii
generally 10 O'Clock before we reach the
hunting grounds, II before the deer is run
ming and always too late to kill any thing
for sit was SO warm or hot, my horse
broke down, got sun struck, and had
to lett 60 by," and lot of such excuses
as would make one of our former old
hunters blush just to listen to. So far as
am concerned, l drink neither tea nor
| coffee and care not a fig for hunter who
cannot dress, get ready and mount his
horse in ten minutes and be off for the
sport. a.
But letus get back to our last Saturday S
great premeditated hunt. At 2 in the
morning, l was up. and managed by per-
suasions to get two of my neighbors, Mr..
D, ST., and D, Jr,, and after three
quarters of an hour they were ready and
in the saddle and all on our way to MIR.
LIS, where we expected to find the
other hunters ready and waiting for us,
but on reaching his house found the gen
tleman still in bed as usual J, as ditto the
other hunters, but, be it said, (and this is
the greatest trulh), we found all the ladies
of the house up and splendid break fast
in readiness for ali those intending to take
part in and to the great anticipated hunt.
Mr.. Il was finally got out of bed, and
in less than ts0o hours we were all on our
chargers and off for the woods. 80
After waiting half an hour in Mr.. B rs
field, the dogs started a large buck and off
went deer and dogs in the stand. selected
by Mr.. L; but as Mr.. L- had been
obliged to get up three hours earlier than
usual, Mr.. buck found him fast asleep on
his stand, jumped over his feet and made
good his escape,-so much for deer No. J..
Second deer jumped mile further on
in three minutes, tanae6y Mr.. D., ST., }
and after running in the drive ten min
utes, came back where the hunters had all
taken their stands, and come very near
running over Mr.. E. D -, who got so
badly frightened that he shot the top of o
tall sapling clean off, and ran for life in
the swamp, where deep water brought
him to stand, and throughout the day
he had the chills, and at times shook so
hard that you could hear the rafting of
his teeth, particularly when the dogs
were on traiD. 7sa@t s+ .9's
Third deer jumped, ran through all the
stands and found nobody there, for the
reason that he was said to be the biggest
buck OF the swamp and every hunter afraid
to meet him and face the music. .1#
Fourth deer up and running proved to
be the darndnest, biggest wild cat.ever
seen or killed on this side of the Rocky
Mountains and weighing something less
than one hundred pounds. l had taken
stand near Mr.. L, (more to protect him
in case of danger than with the sxpecta-
tion of killing deer there), bnt as luck
would have it Mr.. cat gave the dogs
dodge and all Of sudden jumped on a
fallen log in the bushes, about fifty yards
from where | was standing, and Just as
soon as got q glimpse of him, off went
old Rake-all and down went Mr.. cat, not
killed but badly crippled. The dogs came
up in full cry and on reaching the spot
where Mr.. cat had been shot, closed in
on him and of all the darndest, biggest
fuses | had ever heard, heard il there.
Some one followed out it was panther,
another that it was grizzly bear and a
third that it was q Ku Kiux and in less
than no time every hunter was on his
horse and three miles from that spot, with
the exception however of Mr.. l., Mr.. G and
myself who faced the music like brave
men and real old hunters.
After brief consultation, it was agreed
unanimously that we three should quit
the cane-brake and die like brave mon if
we did not succeed in settling that ran-
Their or bear as the case might be. On
reaching the spot, where the dogs made
such tremendous racket, we found it was
the biggest old cat ever seen in our dig
gings; they were fighting; he had broken
the jaws apd badly injured one of our best
dogs, and Mr.. L., like Caesar, ran up to
him, put the muzzle of his gun within six
inches of his head and blew out all that
was mortal in him, and quiet was soon
85t& E BEsE xss
1t was two hours before we could get the
hunters topether and AZ evervboay fal, |