The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-11-23
nrssox ron 4 nUsTER.
A Maine Guide who shoots Back When
People Mistake Him for n Deer.

A Maine Guide Who shoots Back When
People Mistake Him for n Deer.
Every year brings It's list OF men killed in thu
biR-game districts OF Maine and New York by
reckless hunters who saw or heard something
moving in the brush and ut once fired on the
| chance that II might prove n deer. New York,
man who was bunting moose and deer In the
Moosehead Lake region in Maine last month
noticed that his guide wore a red band around
his SLOUGH hat. and asked him the reason
1T is to protect me against getting shot by
fool hunters was the reply. with this red
band on my hat It would be pretty hard for tho
worst OF 'em to pretend he took me for a deer"
But isn't the color too COMPLEMENTARY
II alarm the deer more quickly than a quieter
color ?" the New Yorker asked. .
mot a bit OF It," the guide said, The
hunters forty or fifty years ago used to 60 for
moose and deer wearing red shirts and no
coats. Deer depend on their scent more than
their sight or hearing 10 warn him Of danger.
They are curious animals. and II the wind
was right for the hunter a deer would DO
moro likely to stand and look at his rod
shirt than to run away. But Pm wearing
this red on my hat in the interest OF tho
fool hunters as much as my own. I've been
fired at three times. and have helped 10 carry
two men out Of the woode that had been shot
because foolish hunters had mistaken them
" uOcE. "OIs Ia ItAp hlhh Jud Nv "
q deer and shoots will be sorry. for he'll get
the best I've got in my Winchester p. d. a.. and
there'll likely be a fool the fewer in the world.
1 don't stand for a deer. but propose to exercise
the right OF self defence" r.,
Some days later the New York man and his
guide were skirtinG the foot OF a ridge whore
deer might be looked for. As they worked
their way cautiously along. keeping as much as
possible out OF sight. there came the zip. zip Of
fun h,,lIata nranhE,a thrN,,1hf hA ,nIa~o-n-wkh
one passing so near that the New Yorker
ducked his head. and the other tearing a hole
in the guides coat sleeve. A half dozen moro
bullets followed the first in quick succession.
but the New York man had dropped behind q
log, and the guide from behind q tree was 10.
eatinE m The P ~ his r,S 81 the shooter by the sound
Crack. crack. crack. crack went the guides
in lis eve that meant business. The shooting
from the other quarter stopped and an excited
HIT there, Don't shootl It's a mistakei Stop
But never a. BIT the guide stopped until the
.fiSs was VI sn Area d'hf At e fse eisSth II shot ais tbe %ss ssms
from the woods a %plaint!ye wall: I'm shot"
Stay Fight where You are" he called; and he
reloaded the magazine q his rifle. putting in
Then he strobe over to the place from which
the sh9ts g and nd The he yS Snss had I come. Al tbs
lowed the guide. with rifle at ready. They
% 1SasG g elt Aialsadf .io aan sii efloT IN In a Z HITTING lEsha lS snfs
81 Sro S9pdT0 Ssyer pptt Tsra, sMav a =, rife King a gs on the he
oki9g young man.. who seemed as IL he
SS eiora he nH had hS frea 8 seven 9s; q ys sir Z fs sISe % abots e
sE9b n ~ Ill si9bg 1sb ssca mos,h he he happened pRsR %. t. ; ;Ssl.
held out his double-peaked cap with an airoi
bullet had gone in and out; 4''' """'
You. came as near Killing me as that" he
s l. didn't hit you after all2, said ,tha
Eulde. by the way you sung ont | thought
cooked his rae 'Beiore | driiT a 44.caiihars s
hole through you" the guide went op,"Id
You put This bullet hole through my sleeve,
d err w. | had never seen or hssrmed you. What
AZ The You s %ssH S SE l. fhRP s fingsr on his r4no trir-
ger looked dangerous. The young man was
gasped, II took you for a deer"
well, you found out your mistake, ;" said the
mistake at all Ny mistake was in not setting
ny sights a little lever when I put that hole
as long as YOU live, shoot again at anything
until you know to z dead certainty what It e.
Never on my honor the young man said
., IfI IA TlG ha,t then b., Ven ", drop the thing here
and the New York man had gone their way,
leaving the young man tn his reflections,
as they walked along, Wow Sf'I But tu Was
fearsd, too: when he called out that he was Ijt.
well that ends we'll. He'll do no more wild
SHOOTING for q while. at least"
shortly after they met the young mans guide
taken place, He was highly pleased,
IL was. time somebody called him down"
TURKEY, killed Is hts record for Ave days down in
Boyerbank. besides firing twice into housHs
ana Just missing q farmer as he sat Mt his own
dinner table, Then l got him to come up into
tne PACK woois. where there are fewer people
and farmstOck for him to slaughter"