The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-09-18
D%IANAOFTHE NORTHWo0DS
\ KOON6 WOMAN VINO SURPRISES
ADIRONDACK GUIDES.

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She Goes Camping Alone, and Thinks Moth
ing of Killing Bears and Deer-she IL
Able to Take Care OF Herself in Other
ways, Too-Her WoOdoraft and Record.
There IL a Young woman 10 tho Adirondacks
who has been astonishing the woodsmen.
From Morehousevllle to Moose River her
deeds are talked about at oampfires and Post
once gatherings. II she was n pretty girl.
she might not DO 30 remarkable. But she
Isn't. She has freokles, her hair is soragglY
andEnot too thick, and she's on the go so much
that by fall her shape ia rather angular than
otherwise. She is 10 years old. and has a 20
gauge shotsun and a 1855 oalibre rife. Shells
q deer hunter by preference. though che Is
death to rabbits and partrldEes as soon as
the season comes. Fishing she finds too tame
and her angling trips are made with a rife as
well as q rod. Not for q farm would q game
protector interfere with her.
1t Is now nearly two years since che first
went hunting and camping alone. and since
that time she has made many trips into the
woods without q companion of any sort, Her
mother is very indulGent. She is kept in
doors 90 much:during the winter at boarding
school. hersmother says. that she really needs
the freedom and the relief afforded by the
woods. and she gets the freedom. Her first
trip into the woods alone was exceedingly sue
cessful. It was In October. 1895. one We'd
nesday afternoon. that she asked her mother
to let her go hunting to the lake ut the head
OF Mill Greek. near Eoblesbo rough, on the
West Canada Creek. Her mother consented,
and she started with o little fish basket as a
pack filled with provisions and her rife. That
night ct the hotelssomebody asked where she
was. and her mother explained that she was
hunting up at Mill Greek Lake. Two guides
overheard this bit Of Information. and they said
such things to the mother that she lay awake
oil that night worrying. The next morning
John La Bree. old Hank Antony. and Oliver
Jackson. all noted guides. went hunting for the
girl. As they came out Of the woods by the
lakeside they saw smoke at the little lean-to
camp. and getting around to 1t, they found
the girl frying venison tenderloin steak.
Tho girl had killed q two-year-old buck the
night before. sdressed It herself. and was about
to get ready for the trip home when the men
arrived. The men carried the deer out and
whooped the girls reputation up all the way
down the valley to Prospect.
TIL girl had no further opportunity that
year to distinguish herself. but the next year
she had scarcely got out Of the stage on arriv-
ing at Noblesborough when she set the north
ern part Of Herkimer county talking about her.
The creek was pretty high after o heavy rain
storm that lasted from June 80 to July 8. and
then cleared up. leaving the creek to drain
the spruce and hemlock slashings as best it
gould. The brooks were too high to be
jumped or waded. and the roads were muddy
the. girl oleaned her rife. the east and west Civ
Ing promise q q fine day for the Fourth. She
cleaned # vel an anil it tShoppe inside de and out,
the woods with a light luncheon, the. rifle. and
q little pocket compass. She had to follow the
That course, took her northeast and to the
north OF MIL Creek. Lake. On the Balsam
f knGS t SSwa ErDu s5Sii all 'S torn oyer Ge by Sn soh ReS SDiim saH
There she sat down TO- see what.would happen.
She was eating her jerked yenison and bread
rods down the trail and ambied toward her. It
vas a big black and shivery-looking creature.
The! Be r. was t,iG seven enc or 1e eIrS RtI rods
OF when she decided something, must be done.
sastT rS5ss sSs her S5l Fade;; b and fr ERsR the RSa iySgy stEthSt he
girI had seen too much Of her front sight and
.Sheiwent over to the NH Creek Lake camp.
stayed there all night without anything to eat.
hoping Tor another. chance at the bear. Luck
was with her. and she got a seyenty5ponnd
S fssRer T oa%e al ne The 5a MSg fr aaa New %Sp Rolt to s sse
That fall she went still-huntine with three
was the only, one who had seen q deer. she
while resting after q hard tramp.
b vent alone e MN Creek Lake once
THs Locks Lake trip involved an adventure
new to her. There were three men from
Utica, there at the time: They were using a
creek. threw OF her pack and began to build a
and and began erS ' to make afen jje sSao TSe S q ps srs Ss@G
her rife and sent a bullet against the stone
Spattered ali around. The N men took I to e The
woods on the run and she sat In their camp
she kept the fire going. That was the only
t tr@S aef she HsH Set q sS Sysr BGs h Tevo II serliS ast
winter Of the type the New York policemen
SeTTy in the SeS VOICE %SstS she iHs is NOT Tes 3 bft i SGsi free IL
her wood wSnderlnEs now than last year.
She was out three times this summer alone on
Pond Hole. i've miles north OF Mi! Creek Lake
Just after the deer season opened. No trail
through traeEless woods. and then turning
shRiRFPlYf feet se h fsf ri Stfais Ct a a EEsSddis sbd SGes & S Sl15
and q bali In the, centre OF a dark ,balsam
S Scrns IN Is st the PEND bud as Il d \ Il not sS % 93SEeu th3 n six
ers have q chance Of getting deer there when
the close Of the third two deer came into the
deer was only four or five rods distance on the
moss. The other was. a good thirty rods
away on the far side OF the water, The girl
aimed at the more distant animal from the
bushes behind which she was sitting and fired,
other deer started. too. and the girl, stepping
clear into the opening, began to SHOOT at II;
sight. She. sat down and cried. Then she
went to look for blood Not ten rods away In
the woods she found the second deer lying
dead. The other deer''s track showed blood.
A hundred rods back from the pond the ami
NAL had, turned and q few rods further had
laid itself down; The girls approach scared
deer and got them hung up. The next morn
ing she started for home and three guides
went to the lake that night after the deer.
One OF the deer was a three-point buck. and
how the girl managed TO, get 1t hung up none
OF the guides could understand till the girl
explained she had made a hoist Of the ten
foot fancy rope she uses as a belt. The rope
Is green tasselled and ornamental. but very
She had her school chum up to see her early
IN this month. She took her ohum back into
the woods and the two were gone fiye days.