Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1895-01-31
AN AGGRAVATING DEER.
A Big Buck with Q Passion for
Practical Jokes.
Its Fun In Steering Bird Hunters Against
Bears and Wild Cxts-i Story
Full OF Dry Eumor--Ons
Mans Adventure.

Full OF Dry Eumor--Ons
Mans Adventure.
A big fve-prong buck is tearing ant
prancing about In the woods arount
the headwaters OF Indian Run, Pa
and from all accounts is acting IL
such an aggravating manner that un
less some one kills it before long hall
OF the folks over in that county viii
be afraid to 60 out hunting, Already
three persons have been all but scared
into fits by it, and others who had In
tended to 20 out and try their luck or
the trail Of the eccentric deer have
hung up their guns and said they
would wait.
The first to discover the big buck
and Its aggravating nature was Farm.
err Joseph Baker. Farmer Gakcr has d
field Of rye near the edge Of the woods
on one side OF his farm The rye was
up two or three inches. One day
Farmer Baker walked over to take n
look ut the rye, and there stood q
tremendous big buck, cropping the
rye as colnplacently as a COW eating
grass in pasture. Farmer Baker yelled
at the buck and expected to see it
bound back into the woods, scared
half to death; but it didn't, The tres
passing deer simply raised its head
took an impudent look at the farmer
and resumed its feasting on the young
rye.
why, iiggerblow your impudencc, :"
said tho farmer "l'll twist your con-
ceited necl."
Farmer Baker climbed the fence,
picked up stone and ran toward the
buck, The buck quit eating and
gazcd at the advancing farmer in sur
prise. Then the hairs on his nccl; rose
up. lie laid his ears back, and came
forward in SO decided way 20 meet
",nAN. ,"n,' ','"' VIC in''eI t"rhed
anu hu,rieu pack toward inc fence II
nc ma oeeh one second later he would
,iave oeen heipea over ~ by the bucks
nofnS' inc farmer believes that the
.cer woula nave come on over the
fence after him il II hadn't happened
'ha' rr'eno jackson anu RIM sourbecr
we.e coming aiong the ROAD just then,
w .ncf w"y W INC "oous aller par
.r'age' INC puck evidently dld not
.ine 'ne looks OF Their guns ana the
!''ue yellow oos they had with thom
'or he relreated speedily and disap-
pcared in the woods.
WELL" said Farmer Baker, "if it's
got SO that deer can como and drive u
man out OF his own rye fields seems to
me it's time to call out the military"
But Friend Jackson said that he
guessed he and Phil Sourbecr would
be about all the military it was neces-
sary to call out to suppress that lu-
pudent buck and they and the little
DOG cut across the rye field and entered
M. ,;t.Ia IL. W 0"o ~ "''''
Inc little yellow dog wasn't broken
mus, ho sa,,a,L;nn ~, "as w.. uoV'
down ,n1 ho .aa,, ~. ~ . oah.s " lun
,,on, ,,ra, '. ~ = va :, -, ~"
n. ono.,, ,.,.' ~ "'S ""' ''p'AS
"yau , 1 ~.
phu n,.,a -, ~ .,rn '"0 V,01"'
door w,,, hns,,. tnu n'A' 20 lo' ''''
hears Re,ir an his t"ao,, n .J' ' - W.
stand a cbonca NJ ra,,im', - w.,
him - N' ~
The creek was n mile ovov md PIN
started on the doublc oui.h 10 a.,
there. Jackson went oitor IN. DO,
liza followed tho do, two ,oilss orl
then came nm with Tim TLn 1o', ras
circlipp around in ,bc mmsb h.lt
crazy for Tho cnun,ny ,,ocrhal r,ra,-n
him off tho sccpt so~chow ~ l.U.
son had been a Good deer hna,sr ha
would hive known ,bot tho hrcl, ND
STONED in his troc!.s ta1,on ,rsmnn
dous leap to one side or tho othor ron
back In the direction he hnJ come md
was probably even then razinc from
his hidlng.placc in the bushes nt the
frantic efforts OF the bunter md dog