Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-10

| of, when suddenly Leroy Lyman jumped
up, turned round like fash, grabbed the
gun that I had set against tree nearby,
aimed toward clump of high bushes and
blazed away. hadn't heard anything, and
didn't see anything when Leroy shot, but
when the gun cracked out Jumped big
buck and went off down the hill He was
hit, of course, and Leroy said to me:
1tGo for himi He's our meatP
"Now in those days thought it WASH Z
much of trick for me to do to outrun the
dogs when took after deer, and started
for this one. ] soon passed the dog, and
chased the deer to the bank of the creek.
The dog had gone up over point of the
hill. I discovered the buck in the creek
lying in deep hole. There was a pile of
drift lumber in the creek below him and the
bank was quite high. I started toward the
deer and ne rose to his knees. / knew
something had to be done right away or the
buck would get out of there and make
trouble, so I picked up big three-cornered
stone and hurled 1t at him with both hands.
It struck him on the head and down he
went. He was up on his knees again in
second, though, and downed him with an
other stone.
Getting q Good Bath.
'But still he wouldn't stay down, and 20
I made up nv mind it wouldn't do to take
any more chances with stones, and I pitched
into the creek to settle the deer there. I
seized him by one horn with my hands, and
placing nv foot on the other horn, prepared
to flop him over and drown him. Well, for
the next minute or two that buck churned
and soused me up and down in that creek as
if he was a washwoman and Twas bed quilt,
and he was going to give ME an all-pervad-
ing rinsing.
"Every time he sloshed me down in the
creek the water few up three feet or more
and kept going up and coming down over
us like fountain in steady play, SO regular
and rapidly did the buck keep up his churn-
ing Added to this ducking and
tossing that the buck, now mad as
fury, was treating me to, he was
able to give me dig every now and
then with one of his sharp fore feet, CATCH
ing me ct the shoulder and slashing it down
almost the full length of my arm. This
soon removed what cloth there was be-
tween his hoof and my arm, and then began
dared let 60 of the buck, for his dander was
mp 30 far that he would have come at me
with hoofs and horns too, as was well
aware, and I was well enough acquainted
with deer to feel that he would probably
have me down and spiked and punched full
of holes before could get up the bank.
Tho Otnar Man Was Having the Fun.
''The reason that I didn't know that
dared to let 60 of the buck was that didn't
know that Leroy LYMAN had arrived on the
scene, and was peeking out from behind
big tree, enjoying himself enough to burst
at the wsv was whipping the deer. Of
course, IT had jumped away from the deer
and the deer had jumped after me, Leroy
would have put ball through him so quick
that he never would have known what hit
him. But didn't know Leroy was taking
the buck and me in from behind the tree.
and consequently held on for dear life, and
felt around In my pocket with one hand to
find my knife, for If that fight was to be
ended in my favor 1t had to be done before
daylight was churned out of me by the
buck.
II found my knife, opened IL with my
teeth, and, with all the deliberate calcula- |
tion could command under the circum- |
stances being up in the air one second and |
under the water the next, I felt for the |
bucks jugular. When thought had the |
keen blade Just right plunged it into the
deer's neck, but my calculation was trfe |
of. thrust in the knife clear to the hilt. |
It struck against q bone and the blade !
snapped off close to the handle and stayed |
in the wound. But the sousing and tossing |
and raking with the bucks sharp hoof kept |
right on with Q steadiness and regularity |
that would have made the walking beam Of |
& stsamhoet ashamed Of ITSELF Ny shouldsr |
Ind arm waES telerably well slittsd and