The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-10-28
RUNS Willy BUCK.
IT SEEMS TO DELIGHT IN GETTING
HUNTERS ~ TROUBLE.
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RouLErrE, Pa. Oct. sT.-A big hve-pronR
buck Is tearing and prancing about In the woods
over around the head waters Of Indian Run, and
from all accounts is acting in such an agsravat-
ing manner that unless some one kills II before
long half Of the folks over In that county viii
be afraid TO 10 out hunting. Already three per-
sons have been all but scared into fits by II, and
others who had intended 20 TO out and try their
luck on the trail Of the eccentric deer have
hung up their guns and said thew would wait.
The first 10 discover the big buck and its ag-
gravatinR nature was Farmer Joseph Baker.
Farmer Baker has a field OF rye near the edge OF
the woods on one side OF his farm. The rye IL
up two or three inches. and ready for the snow
to come and cover it and keep it warm until
next spring. The other day Farmer Baker
walked over to take a look at his rye. and there
stood a tremendous big buck. cropping the rye
as complacently as n COW eating grass in pasture.
Farmer Baker yelled At the buck. and expected
to see IL bound back into the woods, scared half
to death; but II didn't. The trespassing deer
simply raised its head. took an impudent look at
the farmer, and resumed its feasting on the
young rye.
why. jigRerblow your impudence - said the
farmer. iii twist your conceited neck !"
ThTutT FDbktTt INO III ltIFfs DlNhfu UP y
a stone. and ran toward the buck. The buck
quit eating and gazed at the advancing farmer
in surprise. Then the hairs on his neck rose up.
He laid his cars back. and came forward in 50
decided a way to meet Farmer Baker that the
latter turned and hurried back toward the
fence. IL he had been one second later he would
have been helped over it by the bucks horns.
The farmer believes that the deer would have
come on over the fence after him IL it
hadn't happened that Friend Jackson
and Phil Sourbeer were coming along
the road just then, on their way to the woods
after partridge. The buck evidently did not
like the looks of their guns and the little yellow
dog they had with them. for he retreatcd speed
lily and disappeared in the woods.
"Well!' said Farmer Baker. III it's got SO
that deer can come and drive a man out of his
own rye field. seems TO me it's time to call out
the military"
But Friend jackson said that he guessed he
and Phil Suurbeer would be about all the mill
tary it was necessary to call out to suppress
that impudent buck. and they and the little
yellow dog cut across the rye field and entered
the woods to follow, up the big game. The little
yellow dog wasn't broken for deer. but he knew
that the deer must be something he ought to
run down. and he took the fresh track and went
away on ii. barking aud yelping at every. jump.
"you make a run for the creek; Phil said
water soon as he hears Belix on his track. and
yon'l stand a chance OF getting a shot at him"
The creek was 2 mile away, and Phil started
after the dog. He followed the dog two miles.
and then came up will him. The dog was cir
cunning buck had thrown him of the scent
somehow. II Jackson had been q good deer
stopped in his tracks. taken a tremendous leap
TO one side or the other. run back in the direc-
then gazing from his hiding p place. in 'f tSe
bushes at the frantic efforts. Of the
MRs'Ter an" I'd, S dog w to iIpa nv the h ,r lost 81 trail;
ward seemed to emphasize the fact that he was
trio buck ever S known in the Indiass Run woods.
After circling around for a quarter of an hour
his dog and went on, hoping TO strike the trail
somewhere ahead. They had gone a couple OF
IFS hiding place beneath tie roots of Pe a fa nrIm
tree. The bear had no idea OF tarrying in that
locality and was making OF diagonally across
rel. But Jackson was not content to have
Jackson, that. having started out to kill par
tridges, he was not loaded for either deer or
Knowing that important fact. and when the gun
cracked he thought that all he had TO do was to
10 get the bear. 1t would he dificuit to calcuc
late how many partrldges Jackson might have
killed that day: Judging his skin as 9 marksman
shoots 10 kill a bear would naturally not aim
at is feet. Yet this bear got the charge
fore feet. The bear instantly laid itself down,
bowling with pain. and began to lick and suck
the wounded part. The recollection that he had
nothing hut bird shot disconnected and scared
Jackson so that all he could do. he says. was To
stand stock still and stare az the bowling bear.
Hut Belix soon changed the situation. He
made his rush for Ill" bear where IL lay nursing
It's bleeding paw. but before he got quite TO il
the bear dropped its nav. rose up with fire ir its
eyes, and trainpling over the dog "a IL he were
less Than a chipmunk in its, way, made straight
fnP jackson 1ha suFnrisa1 aud hrpfz.I na1tx
went yelping away. and was seen no more. The
bear moved onlyon three feet. but it moved so fast
up the tree he was doing his best To- climb. il lad
him hy the heel. Jackson tugged TO get away,
tnnately for the hunter his boot came OFT. and
the bear tumbled back. But Bruin was nimble.
trousers before he had moved upward foot.
The trousers were stout old fashioned hickory.
and 3 held firm n the bears teeth. Jackson
the bear seized the other leg with a paw. II
yanked and yanked, and jackson saw but one
hack to u hand-to-hand tusslc with the
bear. Holding TO the tree with one arm
next yank the bear gave II stripped Jackson's
trousers from him as the skin Is taken OF an eel,
the bear got up Jackson had reaehed" the
branches and pulled himself out of reach.
As he was settling himself in the tree, some
tumbling him 10 the ground, it startled him so.
On a little knoll. not ten yards away, stood the
10 800. oLA ~ NO iNNA lllEH IL lbf ]
looking on at the lively circus the bear and
the hunter had been having. and loOkin' tickled
half 10 death, too jackson said a.terward.
II don't s'pose you got any kind Of AN idee
how a Teller feels up a tree on a frosty day with
out any trousers on" Jackson went on. with "A
durn aggTayatin' deer starin' at you an Rctu-
ally lookin' as II lac could hardly keep from
right out a-laughin', an a big bear
stanGin' under YOU, holdin' the trousers he
skinned of u yOu, an kind o. l0Okin' as IL he
didn't know whether 10 git skeert an run. or
git madden an climb the tree an skin you some
more. ! don't s'pOse you have any kind Of an
idee how a teller, feels in a fix like that, but he
don't feel As II he was srttin' by his hreside
eatin' CTullers an drinkin' cider"
Prom what friend Jackson has 10 say about
the matterthe bear must have been so surprised
At the strange escape Of the hunter that the
more II pOndSred over the matter the uneasier
he became. After looking from the trousers up
Al Jackson. and from jackson down at the
trousers two or three times, the hear turned alb
and linlped away AS fast as he could, dis
in the brush OF In the direction Of
the creek. The buck still remained ON the
knoll, a spectator.
'Jist you, wait there Till | climb down out o.
This tree an git my trousers on" said Jackson.
Then Ill tend 10 your muttOn''
jackson was half way down the tree, when,
an ugly snort. and every bristle erect, the
came pTancing from the knoll toward him.
Ha l- ~ $500 l-