Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-07-03
CAN DEER LIVE 5000 YIARS,
The Combination Of Episodes and
incidents chat Led 90 the COnuu.

The Combination Of Episodes and
incidents that Led 20 the COnun.
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HoEIsDALE, PA, June q&-"Slle Reeves is
DEAD; Sid Cady her rammed his last cartridge;
SUIT. Pettingfll hez gone into his hole ana nj
never see his shadder again till Gabrf toots his
ongle; and death, which hez been rappin' fur
on the bait that come durn nm nigh to fasten n
the ole man, hez got the irons on Uncle Bill
Long, Long at last, / ten you. boys, they amt no
tne tran, and he's bound to git his game Hes
runnin' down the old fellers pooty blame fast
JEST now, and I'm gummed IL don't begin to
!eei as II he were gitttn' ready to draw bead on
me- and to let me have slug behind the fore
shoulder afore long"
"old Bll Long, a famous hunter. of the sus-
quehahha sailey, died In Clearfleld county re-
Gently, aged So years He had followed hunt
Ing and trapping for over sixty years The Old
Setter had known him well, and his death,
who was killed few months apo nv q fsllInSs
tree. In Potter county; SUIT Pettngili. who was
accidentally shot by companion In the woods
OF Forest county last winter and Sid Cady who
Went as usual In the fall Of 1875 TO his cabin in
the woods of Elk county. and whose bones were
| found scattered about one OF his bear trans ia
| the spring. set the old man to thinking about
his latter end, and made him ow-spirited. A
glass OF rum and nigger-toe,' however. turned
lbs thoughts In more cheerful channel
II Gle Bill died In bed" continued the Old
- tter, land that must rather disappointed
him. Iur he allus said he wanted TO nave his
toes turned up by bar or painter or sum-
tnln o. the sort But he didn't, and he was
more 10 blame fur Ii than any body else In them
parts, 1ur a man couldn't hardly expect TO have
bar come and chaw him up or a painter TO
Slice hin inter fish bait, arter he'd gone and
ceintd out every durn bar they was in the
woods and made IL so hot fur painters that thy
had 10 pack up and git. Bnrs mistake was that
ne didn't keep bar and painter on hand TO
| give him raSSle when he felt like campin' on
| the other side o. the river.
81 never think O. Bill Long without havin' TO
laugh about yarn he told me oncet, when
| was campin' with him over on the TIoLeSta,
long In 80. The woods was jest hunpin' their
| Selves with game then. They was so many deer
that the settlers usety have 10 watch their grain
1elds l o keep the deer from eatin' up their rye
| and OATS and I've heerd that two old bucks
made up their minds Oncet to paSter on a farnl-
eT'S rye out there, an jest waltZed inter two
men tnat was watchin. in the field, and made
em take TO the top o. chestnut tree. Then the
bucks fed round ez cool ez If they d sowed tn at
rye themselves, and IL want nobody business
II they wanted to cut 1t fore twas ripe. Every
ufne the men q make move TO git from his
roost, one or tother o. the bucks d make for
EN- with blat that d skeer the fellers ouJR
their wits almost, and ID send 'em back TO the
deer KEEP the men on the tree durn nigh half a
day. an, then walked on to the woods ez inner
lone night Bill and me was telin' stories
In the cabin, an he aXed me IL know'd how
long Geer would live purvided him nor me
want huntin In the woods where the deer
ne didn't neither. But, says BILL know a
Teller that b'lieveS that deer lives to be more'n
Two thouSan year DID, Course we had TO laugh
at this, and then Bill tells me what made this
teller think So
The feller's NAME says he. is Joel Price,
ana he's bark peeler In the Siskyhanner. /
was IN camp over there In 1870. They was
good many deer. and the year afore Bill Car
penter an ME hung up more'n hundred. Bill
want no hunter, neither. He was allus losin
sulhln' or other and was so durn nervous In
I'M O Inp rod t,r,x
COOK aid tend TO the camp. One day took him
out to stand on the runway, and know'd I'd
put big buck right down to him from the
rljge. But never heerd nuthin' from him, and
When co. back to camp, behold ye there was
the wuthieSs rooster setlfn' by the fire smokin'
his pipe, eZ II he hadn't come out fur to do any,
thing else cursed leetle. and axed him what
ne left the runway for. and whether he got a
Shot He said he'd lost his ramrod, and couldn't
DO nothing, SO he came in. Well, the next year,
e. l said afore, camped In the same woods.
Every hight, most, some o. the bark peelers q
come TO NY cabin to hear me tell huntin' stories.
play seE en- up, and 'casionally chip in and have
little game O. draw, with pound o. YEMEN
or hunk o. pork ante, which was stood Tur
by gun wads. One night the peelers cleaned
me cut o. three bucks, big bar, and lot o.
1eIked venzen. | had a pair O deuces as the
go-ln. Jim Slater took one card, and all the
rest called for three. Yer kin have my rifie and
KIT II the two other deuces didn't fail I'm to me-
I II. l MT. Slater, mebbe you nlled your
little Ilush and mebbe you didn't; but whether
you did or whether you didn't, think these
four small deuceS is good enough to hold on
70, ana II you stay by me, III roll every bar1 o.
pork you got In yer camp over to this cabin to.
morrow. said my hand was worth riskin' a
pound o. yenzen on, and slung down wad. Jim
reckoned his could stand SEM my pound o. ven-
he dropped his three wads. The other teller I
didn't stay. l stood the raise and went Jim five
pounds o. YEMEN better. Jim said he thought
ne mad about ten pound @ pork he could spare,
pup with skillet o. milk gravy. He flied hes,
by the horned spoonr l says to myself. The
PARK peeIn camp wont have no pork to eat t:
morrow says. Well, We KEEP on bettin' till
had my three bucks up and had my bar left
which would jest call Jim. WANTED to raE e
him, though, and says, see YOU with the bar
and 60 you two bar better Where yer barsl'
says Jim. IN git 'em fur you tomorrow says
!. know you WILL says he, but that amt
business So put up the bar and called him.
He showedup. II he didn't have four trays I'm
cooDskiD! And he had 'em all the time. had
to berry mess O pork from Jim for my break
fast
every night. He was one o. those arguin cuSSeS
that knows everything and don't know moth
In after all He was great on gittin' relics, and
talkln' bout ancient hist'ry. He talked by the
yard bout old Nimrod and how he hunted and
said he blieved the hunters o. that time
knowed about guns and powder. One day he
wante TO stand on runway, and 1 took him
out druv a buck right to him, and heard
him shoot. went over TO where he was, to see
what he'd done. When got there see he was
as white as sheet, and was hoppin up and
down by the side OF thunderfn' big buck he
had knocked dead In its tracks by some acct
dent Or other. When he see me he moren hol-
Tered. He had ramrod in his hand.
"Great hemlock!" he hollered. I've killed the
father O. all deer Bill, Here's an animal that
they amt no doubt was hunted by the hunters
that lived more'n three thousand years ago.
This ramrod was In his hide. See what it says
al took the ramrod On one side, near the
big end, was cut the letters; B; c., lsi9.'
I" B. c., 1919" hollored Joel. 'Moren three
thousand year ago! Mebbe ole Nimrod hiSself
sent that inter this yer buckr
'I knowed now how Bill Carpenter had lost
his ramrod the year before He'd been loadin'
when he heerd the deer a-oomin', and got SO
nervous that he forgot to take the ramrod out,
and had fired 1t at the buck. 1t plugged inter
the buck under the skin, which had healed up.
Bill allus cut his initials On everything he had,
and the year he done 1t in. This buck was the
same one he had shot at. / told Joel how it
was, but the durn fool wouldn't have it. and he
blieves to this day that a deer I'll live to be
more'n three thousand year old IL you leave it
alone IN T. sun.
To Lovers Of Sca-Rathing.
The lovers OF sea-bathing Will learn With much
interest the result Of series OF observations on
the temperature OF the sea which were COM
pieted some time since by the Scottish Meteoro-
logical Society. The observations were made
every day during period OF four years and nine