Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1896-10-02
TERRORIZED BYDEER
A MOB o. THEM CAPTURE A HOUSE
ANo SMASH THINGS.

But | was going 10 tell you about
| the Canad. game laws being respon-
sihle for nuisance" said the old
! sportsman. THE deer have the laws
down line, and though you might roam
| for day without seeing sign of one Of
[ them IN the shooting season they are Us
numerous aud intrusive a. mosquitoest
, other times The deer. You know, is b
species Of goat and will develop all u
, goat S 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 Oh 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
eyes and shook his tail in an eager
| way, as if be was asking for something
| What does ne WANT we asked the
guide
Oh. anything-old clothes OF boots,
a rubber shoe, tomato cans, anything
| like that for change Of diet.
eve gave him pair Of stockings and
a chrome OF Mary Anderson. He ate
them and bounded away looking as
| pleased AS if his uncle had left him a
| 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 UP by knocking on the door
with their horns. When the guide open
ed the door. the leading buck butted
| him into a corner. The other deer crowd
ed in, and they took possession Of the
place They upset the lamp, and as
many as could get at it drank the kero-
| sene. 1t made them cough, but didn't
abate their curiosity in the least. They
| all put their noses in 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 he was rounded out
| like football and then tried TO go out
to get drink. But he had forgotten the
| combination, and the barrel staid right
| where it was. He gave loud ba a-a-a I
| 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 out
| slowly, shaking his head and keeping il
| low.
Il and Capen bad 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.
" Lego! he shouted. But il was nc
| use They knew the ropes and were not
going to be bluffed
" Jumping mackerel' shouted Cap
en-, getting mad. ! wou I ST.. d this any
longer. Law CT NJ aw, these hoodlums
have got TO get OF. f : = !. Sc.
He started to descend from his berth
when wicked J, :'ng doe made jump
from the otter rad of the room and
helped him back again. don't know
what would .4.,e leone 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
a terrific b-a-a IA : and hosting the bar.
rel up i'll the air began TO charge about
bllndly. re fell 0owp turned sOmer-
saults, butied TIC other deer ard tried
10 knock cut the ehd Il rhe cabin. The
others were SO surprised and frightened
at his strange app araHce and antics
that they stood still AID stared open
mOuthCd iii two on three Cf them were
knocked ga!ley wcs:. These got up and
away, tull lickity Smash, and the others
woke up and slid the whole earth from
under themselves at enc jump.
The three IF Us eot up and jumped
on the buck. We carried him outside
and then let HIM go, and tho W he
smashed around thro'.~I the landscape
was a caution. W -odId trail him by
the biscuits He broke the bottom out of
the barrel after awhile, but guess he's
wearing the rest of it yet.
COT course we were III great state
Of alarm for fear the deer would come
back but the guide said;
That's all right. I'll fix those fell
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 20 others.
They were all Oh 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 us a flash,
and the way they put was caution.
"After that wo had no moro 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 Sun.
The Professional Woman.