Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1896-02-15
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4 MOB or THEM CAPTURE a HOUSE
AND SMASH THINGS.

A sportsmaa's Account of the Annoyance
Caused By canadiaa Game Laws-If You
Want Peace While Hunting IN Canada
Provide stunned Gray Wolf.
But was going to tell You about
the Canadian game laws being respon-
sible for nuisance, said the old
sportsman. 1.-THE deer have the laws
down fine, and though you might roam
for days without seeing sign of one Of
them IN the shooting season tIey are as
numerous and intrusive as mosquitoes at
other times. The deer. you know, is q
species Of goat and will develop all a
goats toughaess if he gets the idea that
you dafen'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 Ia
land last August we sat reading and
smoking. A deer put his head in the
door and ba-a-a-ed at as and winked his
eyes and shook his tail in an eager
way, as if he was asking for something.
What does he want?' we asked the
guide.
Oh, anything--old clothes or boots,
rubber shoe, tomato cans, anything
like that for change of diet.
We gave him pair of stockings and
q 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 deer
with their horns. When the guide OPEN
ed the door, the leading buck butted
him into a corner. THE ether deer crowd
ed in, and they took possession Of the
place. They upset the lamp. and lis
many as could get at il drank the kero-
sene. 1t made them cough, but taidn' 1 /
efeir curiosity IN fiae least. T11sy
all put their noses in the stove and
shifted the ashes. That set them snesz-
ing. The big buck, by turning his horns
sideways, got his head into the biscuit
barrel. He ate till he was rounded out
like a football and then tried to 60 ont
to get drink. But he had forgotten ,he
combination, and the barrel staid right
where it was, He gavea loud ba a-a.aF
and that frightened him worse than any
thing, for his voice was baritone. and |
the barrel made it sound like double |
bass. Then he started in to back cut
slowly, shaking his head and keeping il |
low.
81 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 devonr it.
Leggol' he shouted. But it was no |
use. They knew the ropes and were not
going to be bluffed.
Jumping Igackerel' shouted Cap |
en-. getting mad. / won stand this any
longer. Law or TO 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 the other end of the room and |
helped him lack again. / don I know |
what would have become Of us If it had |
not been for the buck with tho barrel. |
In backing cut he tripod over u chair
and fell down. Tho barrel Jared him.
and he became panic stricken He gave /
a terrific b-asa a and hosting the bar
rel up in the air began to charge about /
blindly. He fell down, turned somer-
saults, butted the other deer and tried /
to knock out the end Of the cabin. The |
others were SO surprised and frightened |
at his strange appearance aud antics
that they stood still and stared open
mouthed till two CT 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
The three CT rs got up and Jumped |
on the buck. We carried him outside |
and then let him 90, and the way he |
smashed around through the landscape |
was a caution. We could trail him by
t1lC DirCuAtcs LAC D&lhS t1G BJAlpltl but vi /
the barrel after awhile. but guess he's |
wearing the rest Of it yet.
''0f course we were in great state
of alarm for fear the deer would come
back, but the guide said:
That's all right. Iii fix those fell
lows.
Luckily we had fine gray wolf
skin. This the guide stuffed and planted
in lifelike attitude on tho shore where
the deer came from the mainland That
afternoon the deer that turned cur cabin !
inside out returned with % others.
They were all on tho broad smile, thing
ing Of the picnic they were going 70
have till they caught sight Of the stuffed |
wolf. That stopped them as dead Is
though they had run against brick |
wall. They wheeled quick as a Fash,
and the way they put WIS caution.
After that we had no more trouble,
and nay advice 10 men who are going |
for sport into the Willis Of Canada is
that they take stuffed gray wolf if |
they want TO have peace and comfort 2
New York Sun.