Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1890-10-02


ing any more fawns home. So after
that when I would be in the wood ano
catch one l would mark it in the cal
with my mark. Years after every lit
tie while l would meet some old hunt.
er and he would say, 81 killed one o.
your deer the other day, he had your
mark in his ear.n
| One day [ was out in the mountains
| hunting there came up heavy rain
| storm. [ hid under the shelter of q
ledge Of rocks. After the sun came out
| started out for an old buck, as / knew
they would soon come into the glady
| places to feed. AS | crossed deep
| ravine, where the sun shone in warm
and bright, | come upon two fawns
lying close up to each other in the
warm sun. / think they were asleep
for they did not offer to move. / set
my gun down and caught both of the
little fellows, and the way those fawns
did kick and blate, I tell you they
made it lively for me to hold them
both. While [ was so busy holding
them the old mother heard them bleat-
ing, and the first thing knew she was
almost on me. l thought she was GO
Ing 10 bounce me, the way she jumped
around me and struck the ground with
her feet and whistled was caution.
didn't know but she would serve me
as they do a rattlesnake when they
come across one. After [ had got the
little fellows quieted little, tried to
pick up my gun and carry it with the
faWns, but / found it little more than
| could do to manage them all. / con-
cluded half of loaf was better than
no bread. l put the buck fawn down
and told him to 60 with his mother,
and started home with the little doe
tawn. | kept the doe for they are not
so dangerous as the bucks when they
grown mp TO be large deer. A tame
buck is not to be relied upon. They
may appear ever SO good and kind to
you and the hildren, the next moment
may knock you down and jump on
y y
before you have time to think what
you are about. No, sir, there is no
safety with an old buck and then they
are so mischieVous. Fences are no OBJ
stacle i'll their way. They just laugh at
fence, no matter how high it is. IF
they want to go on the ther side they
are going. and they are so sly. When
you think they are way off in the
woods the first thing you know you
may feel his foot or be butted with his
horns. and they will walk into the
house, and, if the table is set, if there
is anything on tn e BILE that suits their
fancy, they Will help themselves with
out so much as off you please' or
"thank you.' A deer is great lover
OF honey and will eat all he can find
on the ia BILE. And then the garden is
a favorite resort, especially the beans.
They will eat every bean they can get
their nose at. After | was married l
thought maybe my wife would like
fawn. So the next one I came across
Ill IL anu ~ i'l
her, but she bad no better success than
the rest of the folks.
One day 1 come across an old Rocky
Mountain hunter and trapper. | was
telling him about my poor success rals-
ing fawns. He SAID, "You pet and
handle them too much; you should
never handle fawn nor bare any
weight on their backs, they don't like
it; and the next one you catch just let
him suck your ear, that part of the ear
the ladies put their rings in! And you
can't run away from that fawn. You
just try it and see if is not so.' One
pleasant Sunday morning had put on
my Sundays, and started to the sem
mary to hear Rev. J. G. Bergman
preach, for e had no minister at that
time. When / had got to the red
bank looked over In the wheat field.
saw lot OF hogs in the wheat. /
went back to the house and changed
my clothes and called old Carlo my
hound, and he was a daisy of dog,
we rea ched the field the hogs had all
gone out to lie IN the creek. | soon
found the place where they got in the
field. While | was fixing the fence l
heard old Carlo give yell and start
after something. [ said "a fawD.n I
got up on a stump and could see the
wheat moving as though something |
was running and Carlo right after it.
I saw it was making direct for rne. | |
got down off of the stump and spread |
nv legs apart and hands down by my
knees. That fawn came full run, night
between my legs, and L just shut right
down on him. / caught him so quick,
he did not know what to do. | just |
got down on my knees by his side and
put my arm around him with my hand |
under his chin. After few minutes |
put his nose up to my ear and just
kept still. Pretty soon he nibbled my
ear little, then he grabbed it in his
mouth and the way he did suck. /
thought be would pull my ear off! AT
ter be had sucke ed that ear as long as I
could stand it / turned around and let
him suck the other ear. 0, but weren't
my ears hot. All this time Carlo had
,Ome and stood looking on to see what