Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-07-08
CAN A DEER LIVE 5000 YEARS.
Inc combinations of Episodes am, Incl
dents That Led Ia tlte Cof.undrun

""ht> Ih'tt i.Sd tothe Cofiundruln.
HoNEsDALE. Pa, June 29.-.sSil,
Reeves is dead; Sid Cady hez rau
med his last c:;tridse Sut. Pettinai.f
hez gone into his hole and ii ueyhi
see his shadder again TIL Gabril toots
his bugle and death, which hez been
trappin' fur him fur better n
sixty year. and many time had OH
the bait that come durn nigh to fast
enln the ole mai, hez got the irons
on Uncle Bill Long at last. tell
You, boys, they ANT no hunter like
Father fine. He never gives up the
trail, and he's bound to git his game.
He's runEin' down the old fellers
pooty blame fast jest now, and I'm
gummud if l don't begin to feel as if
ne were gittln' ready to draw On me,
and to let me have slug behind the
fore shoulder afore along"
''Old Bill Long" a famous hunter
OF the susquehanna Valley, died in
Cleartiesd county, recently, aged 50
years. He had followed hunting and
trapping tor owe, sixty years. The
Old Settler had known ilin well, and
his death, taken i'll connection with
that of s'ilc Reeves, who Has killed =
ie" months ago lay "a Ialilng tree, iii
Potter county Sui. I'ljt;GLiil, VIC
was accidentally shot ny g, aompan-
ion III The woods OF Forest county
last winter and Sid CadY. who went
us usual, III the fal! Of 1878. 10 his
cabin III the woois Of Elk county,
and whose bones we're found scatter
cd about one Of his bear traps IL Ire
spring, set the old man 10 thinking
about his latter end, and made bum
low spirited. 4 glass Of '.ruln ama
ni2gcr-toc,' however, turned his
thoughts in d more cheerful channel.
Uncle Bill died in bed" continu-
cd the ''Oid Settler" and that must
rather disappointed him, fur he
al;us said lie wanted to have his toes
turned up by a bar ora painter Oh
sumthin' o the sort, But he didn't,
and he was more to blame fur it
than anybody else in them parts, fur
man couldn't hardly expect TO have
bar come and chaw him up, or a
painter to slice him inter fish bait,
artcr he'd gone and cleaned out eve
~ durn bar they was in the woods,
aud made it so hot fur painters that
they had to hack up and git. Bill S
mistake was that he didn't keep a
bar and Il painter ON hand to give
him \ rassle when he felt like camp
in on the other side O the river.
81 never think o Bill Long with
out havin' to laugh ahouta yarn he
told me oncct, when was eampin
with him over on the Tioncsta, long
iii 80. The woods was Jest hump
in tlmirsrlves with game then. They
was So many deer that the settlers
usety have to watch their grain fields
| to keep the deer from eatin' up theii
rye and oats and I've heard thai
two old bucks made up their minds
onret TO paster on farmers rye ou'
there, an jest waltzcd inter two mel
that was watciin' the field, anC
made 'em take to- the top o "a chest
nut tree. Then the bucks fed 'rounC
.z cool ez if they'd sowed that ry.
themselves, and ii want nobody:
business If they wanted TO cut it fors
twas ripe. Every Time the men d
make Il move to git from his roost
! one or t'other O the bucks Il mak,
] for 'em will, blat that I'll skcer Tia.
ifciE,rs Out'n their wits almost. and ;,
send 'em back to the TOP o The trc'
Iik, jumpin' i;a, Ks on a stick. TIN
deer KEEP the mon on the tree dur,
nigh half slav, an then walked OF
to the wood, ID inncrcent cz lambs
''Dnc night Bill aud me was 4 tel
in stories III the cabin, al he axe,
Inc il / know'd how. long deer wolil,
Hive. pnrvitlet him 7norazine Want
4 imntin' in the woods where the dee
was putin up. said no, | didn't
and he said he didn't neither. 'bnt,
! says BILL Il know Il teller tla
h. ieyes that deer lives to Inc niore'l
tive thnusN' year aia. S. oulst w
had " laugh At ti,is, and then Hil
tellsz lnc what made tl,is fclIc
think s". - 20
/ sss1lic fcller's name, says he, Il
! Joel 1ricc, and he's a bark peeler il
tin SisLyhunncr. 1 was in CAM
over there in 1920. They was a goO'
many deer, and the year afore Bill
Carpenter and luc hung up more II
hundred. Bill want no hunter
maller. BE WIS :dlus a losin' suth
in on oth,a, and svas so 'hrn nefV
onsin the woods that bout AL il
was good for was to cnok and tent
TO thcFamu (.nc day took hi
OIL 4 stand on ~ runway, and
knew'a ia ru115a hig buck rieh
down 10 him from the ridge. But