The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-07-03
The Boy and the Deer.

How boy captured deer in Kentucky
it thus told by All eye witness "In an
hour or 50 we first heard the distant bay of
the hounds. From the cry, as il continued
the deer seemed to be crcling around in
the hills, instead of making & straight run
for the river as was usual. We remained
| almost stationary, not knowing which course
the hunt would take, and the music became
less and less, until we heard the long bay
| of one hound only. But to our great joy,
that voice was coming our way. From the
| length of time the game had been afoot,
we concluded that the dogs had become
tired and left the trail, with the exception
of the staunch old hound, whose voice we
could occasionally hear rs he unilinchngly
followed the quarry. Nearer and nearer
came the sound. We dismountcd, tight
cned girths and waited Our horses were
| rs highly excited AS ourselves, and we could
| with difficulty curb their impaticncc. We
were stationed Oh the high road leading to-
ward the village, and the deer was cvi-
| dcntly running in that direction. At length
he came, noble buck, gallantly bounding
| through the woods in Il line parallel with
| the road, and not more than hundred yards
away from U.S. We put spurs to our horses
| and followed.
wv it'll the party was boy sixteen years
old, who had never before seen Il deer in
| the woods, and was almost crazcd with en-
| cilcmcnt. AS he rode by my side he looked
'as big as an elephant On we drove, oc-
casionally catching glimpse Of the buck
rs he dashed through the woods lie was
very tired. The dogs had pressed him
hard and he had probably run twenty miles
before he arrived ut the point where we
met him. Soon the noble old hound came
in sight, and us he saw us he burst into such
melody that we joined him at the utmost
stretch of or lungs. On we pressed, rap
idly approaching the village, directly
through which the chase seemed fatcd to
take u.s. Soon we came to large corn
field, which was surrounded by 'stakcd
and ridcrcT fence six feet high. We could
not jump it, and looked to sec where the
deer had gone In. We found the place, and
tearing oil the top rail leapcd our horses in
10 the corn. Rushing through we arrived
at the other extremity of the field just in
time to see the deer attempt to jump the
fence. The dog was close at his heels and
| sprang upon him, and catching him by the
flank prevented his leap. The poor animal
was evidently worn out with his long run,
but he gallnntly charged the dog, and leap
ing over him ran galantly back toward the
point at which lie had entered the field.
We turned likewise and taking different
burrows among the corn, pressed our horses
to the top Of their speed. My little friend
rode between me and our companion. lie
rode leaning over his horsc's neck, gazing
straight ahead and yelling like Il mailman.
l thought Of Il raving lunatic. Tho corn
was high and the dust so thick from the
trampling of 80 mapy animals TINT at length
l Cuulu SEC nolhNc9' but all at onoo l hoard
a crash, strl,IT "A shout:
4" I've got him! I've got him! Como
quick =
81 rode toward the voice, and lol the
young lunutic Oh the ground was struggling
with the deer Fortunately the animal was
so exhausted by his long run that tho boy
could pretty nearly handle him; but horns,
hoofs, legs, arms, boy, deer and dog were
rather promlscuously mixed IN a cloud of
dust that cnvelopcd them when I came in
sight. l sprany from my horse and drew
my hunting knife across the throat of the
animal, at the same time scizing the boy by
the collar and drawing him away. After
resting few minutes hc told nc that, see
ing the deer rush past him, he could not re-
sist the temptation, but threw himself off
his horse upon the back of the hunted ami
nal, clasping his arms round his neck
The shock threw the deer to the ground
We put the dead animal on one of the
horses, and rode through the village, and
our young gentleman was the hero of tho
! Springs the rest of the season. ="