The sun., 1897-08-29
PIKE COUNTY DEER MOpINo.
They Arc Heading Enst, says ES-Pooh bah
nidEwny. nmd They Have Reason for II.


They Arc Heading tsnst, says ES-Pooh bah
nIdEwny, amu They Have Reason for IT.
PoRT JERvIs, Aug. 2s.-EX-Shcrif. ex.Pro-
thonotnry, cX.Rccorder, cx.Ecgistcr Warren
Klondike Rdgway of Pike county, resident
director OF the Milford, Matamoras and New
York Railroad Company. had look of much
worrimcnt on his face when ho came into Ed
Gciscnhcimcr's game supper rofcctory the other
evening.
"What is It |" Ed asked him anxiously.
1.-THE Pike county deer are all headed cast!'
replied Warren. with gloom.
/ Gcisenheimcr sat down and gnZed blankly at
| the Pike county ex-potcntate. man from back
! OF Lackawack actually paused with his hand on
the bottle he was tipping toward a tunbcr and
looked round Mt the cX.Shcrf as II he feared
the worst. but suddenly remembered that he
h,d forgotten himself. and quickly completed
( the circuit OF ottle and glass. sullivan coun-
I ty blucstonc quarryman gave q swift and ap-
, prchcnsve glance at the speaker and hurried
/ out so fast that he didn't hear the bartender
ho!ler TO him to come back and pay for his beer
( But the former Pooh Bah of Pike county wasn't
daft He had lots OF mind, and there was plainly
/ heap OF trouble on IT.
| "That's what | said!" he exclaimed. THE
| Pike county deer are all headed east!'
| And all that Ed Geiscnheimer could do was to
| feebly murmur: "Whyf"
"Whyl" replied the ex-Sherif. Because
they're smart! That's why! They're smart. be-
cause they're Pike county deer. Everything is
smart in Pike county. Pike county just bulGes
with smnrtness A United States Senator grew
up in Pike county once. whole lot OF Con-
gressmen and big bunch OF Judges came from
there and heap more of the smartest kind OF
other folks I'm from Pike county myself"
Dave McFall, the Wells-Fargo man, cracked
his fingers and grinned.
YES" said he. IL was up back of Shin Hol-
Ter t'other day and ran onto man picking
hucklcberries. He could pick buckleberries
faster than cornshellcr could shell corn.
"'Thumpin' jceswax. man! said, but your
smart!
"'You bet you I'm smart! said he.
Why, you must have come from Pike coun-
ty. saidI.
That's what did, said he. I came from
Pike county. You bet your life did. And that's
the smartest thing l ever done!'"
Dave McFall grinned again. and the ex-Sheriff
fell into a moments deep thought. Then he said:
Dave there's couple of fellers running for
office over in Pike county lean get you paying
job with either one OF EN-.
What doingf' asked Dave.
Thinkns him up IieS HSoa, the other feer said
GeisenheimeT; The man from back Of Lasks- ks
Now. then" said Ed Geisenheimer. how
aho%, those P. Pike county DEER i,,s
"That's what! And it's worrying me. II Pike
county hunters want to have any fun with deer
They've got to stand people along the east edge
Of the county right away and not more than u
Brook TO Ketchall Eddy, to shoe the deer back
: wilderness for them deer are headed east and
: making for the river. get the same news
the up.counlry. The woods are full OF deer. hut
They're moving out headed east Full M Of deer
Stamps S1
ing letters from hunters asking why the deer
= been telling EN- why the deer are acting go It's
. because they're Pike COUNTY deer, and Gonse
Ts so % get s"s %nx on and nS
j. their deer, or they wont have any fun with en-
out he S eoas the 4
! sullivan county II they ain,t stopped. That
what wi At theyre up TO- on there ,sI smart; q They
!, county hunters don't corral ,em. That's whats
i worrying me. II you want TO KNOW !, ...,
a Must be smart, them deer must. II They're
!. siIIAS Sail Why. Sullivan County W hunters car car
hsE ss III se s ef ssa
!. that maybe yon might have heard about. lie
r. me tell you something about the hear-the kin.
5. down on the hendwaters OF the, ltattlesnak
o Creek. ! don't remember now whose timber
ing. s big bear got tom to nosing around the shanty
70 and made u nuisance Of himself He was 81
hS%sna Snd e snGt SS S' n
r. where ] saw, signs that ho was In the habi
PsSshS a"nS wnSds IN used
ID path, too. and for fear hat some one might ste
the and % % ne leg bo hogs Esp "R
t against the trap, ana telling them 70 turn ,S Sa
re re came into the path again. ! felt, sure I'd &c
~ the old boar. and ono day ! vent ou
,,S got to the spot i came in sight OF tn
II. bear. He had just raised up on his hin
~ posted. Ills inspection over, he tore the motto
4 down and put it up on another tree twenty fee
gave wicked % snort nor md walked into the WOOD
Of around ne trap came out IN tho pat pain a. on n
,r. acting MS II he was just about tickSd to deaf
rs over what he had done; And well well ne i,. migi
~ did and seen what he was Mp to. II ira got thei
n a couple of minutes later d have seen the N
wo"dn have Known It fe had been change
on and what would have donoi I'd hnyc turn,e
81 1h at r"G or so
III and stepped plumb into that trap Even Pil
ne county bears are smart; ... /. .,,,
rd you think il they are pulling for Sulliv'
county, where the hunters can beat the boots c
.ys OF us Pike county fellors knocking deer ovC
he Then hark. The deer hunting season in Pi
ge county opens in October. When does 1t open
cd Sullivan county r.
40 They didn't know
OF "Dont know, ch r. said Pooh Bah Ridgwa
on "Wcll, III tell you. 1t don't open in Snllyi
lrt county at all! Your new game law don't allC
Try any deer hunting in, sullivan county this }ye'
On. and here You live right on tho fringe Of Suliv
lor county and don't know it! You don't know
ho but ihcn l'ike county deer know IL, ana they
,ir- headed cast!"
iill There was silence in the refoctory, and I
a cx-ShcriH went out before II was broken. Ih
his the man from back Of Lackawack broke 1t.
lill " dunno whether the sheriff Is u liar or no
list snid nc, " but II was him III be blinRdaln
for II IL aon seem as II l q wear liRhtnlh rod!
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