The Roanoke daily times. (Roanoke, Va.) 1895-1897, 1896-02-06
TERRORIZED BYDEER
A MOB OF THEM CAPTURE A HOUSE
AND SMASH THINGS.

a Sportsman's Account OF the Annoyance
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 CanadiaA gamo laws being respon-
Sible for n nuisance" said the old
sportsman. ''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 they are as
numerous and intrusive as mosquitoes at
other times. The deer. you know, is
species Of goat and will develop all
goats toughness if he gets the idea that
you daren It touch him. No small boy
could be moro 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
eyes and shook his tail in an enger
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 q change of diet
We gave him pair of stockings and
chrome of Mary Anderson. He ate
them and bounded away looking as
pleased rs 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 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 i'll tho stove and
shifted the ashes. That set them sneez-
ing. The big buck, by turning his horns
sideways, got his head into tho biscuit
barrel. He ate till he was rounded out
like football and then tried to go out
to get drink But he had forgotten tho
combination, and the barrel staid right
where 1T was. He gave loud ba. a. la =
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
Cl cl,o1- L., L.
low.
81 and Capen had kept quiet in Cur
hunks. We knew the Canadian law, and
we didn't want any trouble with tho
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.
LeggoF he shouted. But it was no
use. They knew the ropes and were not
going to be bluffed
Jumping mackerel!' shouted Cap
en-, getting mad. I won 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 the other end of the room and
helped him back again. 1 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 o 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 tho 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 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.
"The three of us got up and Jumped
on the buck. We carried him outside
and then let him go, and the way he
smashed around through the landscape
was caution. We could trail him by
the biscuits. He broke the bottom ont Of
the barrel after awhile, but 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 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 25 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