The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1889-04-04

the ueor Is as good as In the hunters
hands. In running and taking its
great leaps the deer always strikes the
ground with It's right fore foot first,
and then, II the left fore leg is injured.
It can be 30 favored by the right one
that the speed of the deer may be
maintained for many miles; but the left
fore leg can not favor disabled right
leg, and when the latter is broken the
deer is gone.
''Well, this wounded buck that had
put on its mettle by an act of mistaken
kindness gave me most lively chase
round and round that stump for five
minutes. had no weapon, not even a
pocket-knife, but there was an ak in
my sleigh. How to reach that, how
ever, was the puzzle. The sleigh was
fifty yards away. but between 1t and
where l was lodging that wounded
buck around the stump were number
OF trees, standing at irregular dis
tances from each other, and no
two of them closer together than
ten feet. They were all small trees,
too, the big timber having been cut
along there. 1t was plain to me that I
couldn't spend much more time cir
cling aroundthat stump, for broken
legged and emaciated as he was, the
buck gave evidence OF more bottom
and endurance than I could. / was
fast getting winded My only chance
was to make break from the stump
to the nearest tree, and so on from tree
to tree until I could reach the sleigh
and get my axe. With that in my
hands had no doubt OF speedy end
OF the battle in my favor.
II made the break, but when
jumped behind the first tree, which
was not more than fifteen feet away,
the bucks antlers grazed my back. I
had expected tight work, but that it
would be as close for the eyes as that
was more than l had calculated on.
But succeeded in dashing from one
tree to another, with the buck at my
heels all the time, until had only to
get to the one where my horse was
tied. and that was only the width Of
the road away, my sleigh being on the
side of the road l had first seen the
buck on.
al had felt that my uncomfortable
and perilous experience would soon be
at an end, but had not taken the
feelings and disposition of my horse
into account. made the dash across
the road and reached the tree safe,
but as the deer sprang into the road
ithe horse gave snort and Jump,
the halter strap snapped like whip
cord. and away went herse, sleigh,
iaxe and all towards Jobs Bridge as
fast as a good horse running away
could go.
II had no time to think OF that,
though, for I was in full sight of the
deer. and he was coming like loco
motive 4 turned to jump behind the
tree, bnt never got there. The buck
'struck ENC just below my hind .sus-
pender buttons, and lifted me 80 I
cleared a snow-drift that extended
along that side of the road, and landed
me at least ten feet on the other side
of it. Iarat blow knocked the breath
out OF me, and it hurt me consid-
erably, but it saved my life. The
buck, in his eagerness to get
at me, mounted the drift. The
crust bnoke beneath his sharp
hoofs, and all three Of mis- sound
legs became as useless to him as his
broken one He sank into the snow
bank to his belly, and although he
showed his fury by thrashing his great
antlers ON the snow, and byloud, fierce
Esnorts. he was more helpless than q
newborn 1fawn. did not wait any
longer than could help to witness his
futile fury, but limped home as fast as
L could Imet my son on the way, the
horse reaching home without me hav-
ling naturally alarmed my family. My
: son went back with me and got his
.gun. and returning to where i had 90
luckily escaped from the'buck, put the
poor beast out OF his misery. From
the appearance OF the broken leg the
fracture nust have been at least two
weeks old. but how the leg had been
broken. nobody could tell. ."-Chicago
journal.
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