Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-03-31

ran, and that deer just made somer
set and fell. Now, If I had not beer
taught to track | would have lost tha
deer
One day in the summer, just aftel
haying-it was on Saturday. had beer
to Caledonia after the mail. When
reached home / saw all of the female
part of the family standing out in the
yard looking towards the woods. As
rode up to the group l said, What i:
the matter? anything wrong?n They
said, about an hour ago large deer
came in the meadow way over yonder
and Henry shot at it, and it ran and
jumped over the fence and has gone in
the woods, and all the men are looking
for it." / got off my horse and said
Can you show me just where thai
deer stood when Henry shot at it?'
They said, Yes" So all of us went tc
the place they said the deer stood
After looking around short time, saw
where the deer kicked up the dirt wher
the bullet hit it-for a deer will kick
awfully high sometimes when bullet
hits, and the feet will tear up the dirt
l stopped down and looked at the tracks
and by looking carefully ! could see
every track. | followed the tracks un.
til / came to the fence where it jumped
over; there I saw some blood on the
rails. | got over the fence into the
| woods, and followed the track about
| fifty yards and there lay the deer dead.
| 1t had fallen in a hole in an old dry
branch. I gave '.Who-ee! Who-eer
and don't you think those men were all
scatterd over the wood for half mile
When they came to me / showed them
the deer lying just where it feel, and
those fellows had walked within ten
feet of that deer and didn't see it.
will give you one more case. One
day I was at work in the field, and a
young fellow came to me. He had his
gun on his shoulder. and was almost
out of breath. He said, Il shot deer
way back yonder. a mile or so from
here, and the deer ran off and | can't
find it. l have heard my grandaddy
say you can track deer as good as
hound. | want you to GO with me and
see if you can find it for me, for | have
looked everywhere,
When we got to the place | told the
young man to "Show me now just
where you stood when you shot" At
ter looking around a short time, saw
tracks and the marks of the breach of
the gun where it made a dent in the
ground as he reloaded it. Now, here
is where you stood now show me
where the deer stood" We went about
sixty or seventy yards and he said,
Here is where the deer stood" The
ground was very dry, and the tracks
did not show very well, but at last |
saw some sign and took the course. |
could just make out the tracks; after
following about fifty yards, / lost the
track for while. ] went back to the
last track, and brushed away the dry
leaves and grass. / saw the deer had |
made turn to one side, and had gone
back the way he had come, but he had |
gone into hazel thicket and it was very
hard work to make out his sign. After |
hunting one by one we at last came to
where the deer had made another short |
turn, and about ten feet from US lay |
that deer dead, and it was as near to |
the fellow when it fell as it was when |
be shot at it.
l tell you, Mr.. Editor, it takes a |
pretty smart deer to get away from me,
after have put a bullet in it! l re-
during the war, I shot one
deer out in the mountains. and did not |
get it, and l have never gotten over it
yet. One afternoon / went out in the |
mountains to kill deer. After / had |
yot out there / looked way across a
leep gulch, and | saw large buck
eeding. / drew down on him and fir
3D. How he did kick, and just laid
lown to it. But he was soon out of
sight among the deep gulches. Hook
ID up again and crossed over to where
he stood when I shot. I tooE the track
md followed a short distance, when
he deer made a track. Not far off /
vas the top of tree that lightning i
lad broken off when the leaves were
Ill on and had dried on the limbs
these tracks until they passed
he tree-top, and lost them. | went
,ack and tracked him up again. When
got to the same place the tracks were +
rome. looked in, as l thought, faith
ully among the dry limbs and leaves
# the tree-they were just the same
.olor as deer-but l could not see
lnything of that animal, and I hunted
md hunted for him. At last I gave it
Up as bad case. | started for home, |,
when / had got half way home I said,
: That deer must be hid in those
caves" / went back, but with no bet