Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1892-04-21
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believed the fellow cried about it.
But that put a stop to our asking for
presents. That dog followed me
wherever 1 went. Like Mary's little
lamb he was seen to follow. Iremem-
Der in a few days my Old Pard was go
ing over the mountain in the vicinity
of the mill, and very nearly q half of a
mile to one side was u large IoclS OF
deer-some twenty or thirty of them.
Before we saw them. | saw TOwser be-
gin to wag his tail. l looked, and
way off on tie side of the mountain
were three deer. Old Pard said to me,
s.You stay here and keep the dog from
breaking after them, and l will take a
tree and slip up and kill one.''
After Old Pard had got almost with
in shooting distance, the dog could not
stand it, but broke away from me and
took after that drove of deer. Deer
and dog were soon out of sight and
hearing. AS luck would have it, they
went the same way we were going, so if
he caught one we would be on his track;
for that dog had caught several well
deer in a fair open chase.
just before we got 10 the mill.
which was on the other side of the
stream from us, old Towser came to us,
his hair all wet as if he had been in the
creek. l examined him closely to see
if l could see any blood ON him. AS
we did not find any, we started on.
just as we reached the end of the dam,
a big old buck jumped out of the pond
upon an abutment of the dam, and made
a spring over onto the rocks below. As
he did so. while in mid air, we both
threw our guns to our faces and shot at
him as he went over. We both hit
him, but not badly enough to kill him.
AS he bounded on the rocks in the wat
er the dog and old pard rushed in. The
water was two feet and running very
swift over those smooth poryphry rock
which were very slippery. AS the dog
and old pard caught the deer, / stood
upon the end of the dam, and such
time of it as those fellows had! Some
times all of them would be lying in
pile nearly covered with water, and
the way they made the suds fly was a
sight! AT last they got the deer kill
ed, as they thought, and came out, the
water Just pouring off of them. AS |
stood laughing at them, / saw that old
buck begin to get up on his feet.
said, Look at your deern' By the
time they had got to him again he was
half way across the stream, and such
another time as they had with him
Just imagine you are on those smooth
rocks in the Sout-In just above the falls,
with the water running two feet deep.
and think what kind of a place to try
to fight an old buck At last, they
killed him and pulled him to shore.
l tell you we had some good old hunts
with Towser after that. In those days
the woods were all open, like large
park; no small trees or brush to OBJ
struct the view, except in very rocky
or wet places, where the fire would not
burn. In such places you would often
find some of the densest thickets of
brambles and other brush, almost i'm
penetrable. Such places made good
hiding places for foxes and wolves. |
When any game gets in cne OF those
thick bramble patches you might just
about as we'll quit and go somewhere
else tc hunt. / was going down to see
Old Pard one spring day, and passing
oy one of those thickets in a wet swamp |
place | saw two deer standing in the
road about one hundred and sixty yards
ahead of me. | got down off of my |
horse and shot at one of those deer. |
It had been raining all the forenoon,
and the creeks were up pretty full. |
As I shot at that deer they both ran in
20 that bunch of brambles. Icould see |
al outside of the thicket, but not in it.
[ got on my horse to watch and see if
hey went out of the thicket. After |
waiting nearly half an hour, | got |
lown and hitched my horse, and went
md took the track. The blood was |
,pattered on the brush just as if a hog |
had been stuck. | could follow by the
blood, only the brush was SO thick |
had hard work to make my way |
| saw so much blood thought |
every minute l will come on you lying |
lead, but I could not get sight of that |
leer. It would wind in and out, back |
md forward, cross and recross his |
rack, and / never could find that deer |
or come up with it, and | followed it |
or more than two hours, and it bled |
LII the time. When I at last gave it |
1p as a bad job, and came out of that |
,hicket as bloody as though l had been |
with the blood from the |
pushes that came from the deer.
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