The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-02-25
TERRGRIZEI, BY DEER
A MOS Or THEM CAPTURE A HOUSE
AND SMASH THINGS.


Caused by Canadian Game Laws-If You
Want Peace While Hunting In Canada
Provide a stuffed Gray Wolf
"But was going to tell you about
the Canadian game laws being respon-
sible for a nuisance" said the old
sportsman. 1.-The deer have the laws
down fine. and though you might roam
for days without seeing a sign Of one Of
them in the shooting season they are as
numerous and intrusive as mosquitoes at
other times. The deer. you know. is a
species Of goat and will develop all q
goats toughness if he gets the idea that
you daren't touch him. No small boy
could be more insolent than the deer
| under those circumstances.
after we finished our dinner the
first evening at the cabin on Capen is
land last August we sat reading and
smoking. A deer put his head in the
door and ba-a-a-ed at us and winked his
way, as if he was asking for something.
"What does he want?' we asked the
guide.
"Oh. anything-old clothes or boots,
a rubber shoe, tomato cans. anything
like that for change of Diet
"We gave him pair Of stockings and
chrome of Mary Anderson. He ate
them and bounded away looking as
pleased as if his uncle had left him
legacy. That made Us laugh, and we
hoped he would come back and let us
have some more fun with him.
HE did come back before daylight
next morning and brought six other deer
with him. They ate up two white shirts
and some underclothes that were hang
| ing on the line behind the house and
reused us mp by knocking on the door
with their horns. When the guide OPEN
ed the door, the leading buck butted
| him into corner. The other deer crowd
ed in, and they took possession Of the
place They upset the lamp. and as
many as could get ut it drank the kero-
| sene. 1t nude them cough, but didn't
abate their curiosity in the least. They
| all put their noses i'll the stove and
shifted the ashes. That set them sneez-
| ing. The big buck, by turning his horns
| sideways, got his head into the biscuit
| barrel. He ate till be was rounded out
like football aud then tried to go out
| to get drink. Bnt he had forgotten the
| combination and the barrel staid right
| where it was He gave loud ba a-a-aP
| ard that frightened him worse than any
thing, for his voice was baritone, and
| the barrel made it sound like double
| bass. Then lie started in to back out
slowly, shaking his head and keeping Ii
low
Il and Capen had kept quiet in our
hunks We knew the Canadian law, and
we didn't want any trouble with the
deer. But they had no idea of leaving
Us in peace. Two Of them caught hold
| of the blanket that was covering Capen
and began to devour it.
| "'Leggo he shouted. Bat it was no
use. They knew the ropes and were not
going to be bluffed.
| jumping mackerelP shouted Cap
en-. getting mad i won't stand this any
longer. Law or no law, these hoodlums
have got to get out Of my house.
| "He started to descend from his berth
when wicked looking doe made jump
from tho other end of the room aud
helped him back again. don't know
| what would have become of US if it had
not been for the buck with the barrel
In backing out he tripped over chair
and fell down. The barrel Jared him,
and he became panic stricken. He gave
terrific 'b.a-a.a!' and hosting the bar
rel up in the air began to charge about
blindly. He fell down, turned somer-
saults, butted the other dedr and tried
to knock out the end of the cabin. The
others were SO surprised and frightened
at his strange appearance and antics
that they stood still and stared open
| mouthed till two or three of them were
knocked galley west. These got up and
away, full lickity smash, and the others
woke up and slid the whole earth from
under themselves at one jump.
1.-THE three Of Us got up aud jumped
ON the buck. We carried him outside
and then let him 60. and the way he
smashed around through the landscape
was a caution. We could trail him by
the biscuits. He broke the bottom out Of
the barrel after awhile, but I guess he's
wearing the rest Of it yet
"Of course we were in q great state
of alarm for fear the deer would come
back, but the guide said:
That's all right. I'll fix those fel-
lows.
Luckily we had fine gray wolf
skin. This the guide stuffed and planted
in lifelike attitude ON the shore where
the deer came from the mainland. That
afternoon the deer that turned our cabin
inside out returned with 90 others.
They were all ON the broad smile, think
ing of the picnic they were going to
have till they caught sight Of the stuffed
wolf. That stopped them as dead as
though they had run against brick
wall. They wheeled quick as a fash
and the way they put was caution.
AFTER that we had no more trouble,
and my advice to men who are going
for sport into the wilds Of Canada is
that they take stuffed gray wolf if
they want to have peace and comfort. !"
New York Sum.