The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1898-10-15
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lowing serIaeAa. sa.ys al 9A she pun
sued and yroaehsl NJ Ehs earth &
come and Stake sA,siH tbjrsbiS The dec
river ~ lisnee eoBJnco, fae tex,
As the AaEs rtl,besh after waite
brooks, 81 paassth my ses,l after thee
u Cod.
David. ~hs ulask some time hay
seen deer hunt. points Us here to
hunted stag uakiDg tor the water
The fascinating siaiuAsl called In IN,
text the hart IS the sat0e animal tina
In sacred and profane literature II
called the stag. the roe buck. the hind
the gazelle, the reindeer. In centra
Syria, in Bible times, there were whole
pasture fields of them, as Solomon sug
gcsts, when he says: II charge you
by the kinds of the field" Their ant.
lcrs jutted from the long grass MS they
lay down. No hunter who has been
long in "John Browns tract" will
wonder that in the Bible they were
classed among clean animals, for the
dews, the showers, the lakes washed
them rs clean AS the sky. When
Isaac, the patriarch, longed for ven
ison, Esau shot and brought home a
roe buck. Isaiah compares the
sprightlincss Of the restored cripple of
millenninl times to the long and quick
jump of the stag, saying: "The lame
shall leap as the hart" Solomon eX-
pressed his disgust at n hunter who,
having shot a deer, is too lazy to cook
It, saying: ''Thc slothful man roast
eth not that which he took in hunt
ing" 49,. ...
But one day David, while far from
the home which he had been driven,
and sitting near the mouth of a lone
~ cave where he had lodged, and on
the banks of pond or river, hears n
pack of hounds in swift pursuit. Be
cause of the previous silence of the
forest the clangor startles him, and he
says to himself: 81 wonder what
those dogs are after" Then there is
cracking in the brushwood, and the
loud breathing of some rushing won
der of the woods, and the antlers of n
deer rend the leaves of the thicket,
and by an instinct which all hunters
recognize the creature plunges into
pool or lake or river TO cool its thirst,
and ut the same time by its capacity
for swiftcr and longer swimming to
get away from the foaming barriers.
David says to )himself: "Aha, that is
myself! Saul after me, Absalom after
me, enemies without number after me;
j am chased; their bloody muzzles at
my heels, barking at my good name,
barking after my body, barking after
my soul. Oh, the hounds, the hounds!
But look there" says David to him
self; that reindeer has splashed into
the water. IL puts its hot lips and
nostris into the cool wave that washes
Its lathcred tanks, and it swims away
from the fiery CANNES, and it is free
ut last. Oh, that ] might find in the
deep, wide lake of Gods mercy and
consolation escape from my pursuers!
Oh. for the waters of life and rescue!
AS the hart panteth after the water
brooks, SO panteth my soul after thee,
o Cod"
The Adirondacks are now populous
with hunters, and the deer are being
slain by the score. Talking one sum-
mcr with a hunter, l thought ! would
like to see whether my text was ac-
curate in it's allusion, and as / heard
the dogs baying "A little way Off and
supposed they were on the track of a
deer, ] said to one of the hunters in
rough corduroy: ''Do the deer al
ways make for water when they are
pursucd?" He said: "Oh, yes, mis-
ter; you see they are hot and thirsty
animal, and they know where the wa
ter is, and when they hear danger in
the distance they lift their antlers and
sniff the breeze and start for the
Racquet or the Loon or Saranac; and
we get into our cedar shell boat or
stand by the runaway with rifle
loaded and ready to blaze away"
My friends, that is one reason why
like the Bible SO much--its illusions
arc SO true to nature. Its cartridges
are real cartridges, its ostriches real
ostrichcs, and its reindeer real rein
deer. do not wonder that this an
TERED glory of the text makes the
hunters eye sparkle and his check
glow and his respiration quicken. To
say nothing of it's usefulness, although
II is the most useful of all game, it's
flesh delicious, it's skin turned into
human apparel, it's sinews fashioned
into bow-striDgs, it's antlers putting
handles on cutlery, and the shavings
OF its horn used as n pungent restora-
tive, the name taken from the hart
and called hartshorn. But putting
aside its usefulness, this enchanting
creature seems made out of graceful
ness and elasticity. What an eye, will,
liquid brightness as IL gathered Up
from hundred lakes at sunset! The
horns, coronal branching into every
possible curve, and after ii seems COM
plete ascending into other projections
of exguisiteness, n tree of polished
bone, uplifted in pride, orswung down
for awful combat. The hart is velocity
embodied. Timidity impersonated.
The enchantmcnt of the woods. Its
eye lustrous in life and pathetic in
death. The splendid animal COM
plete rhythm of muscle, and bone,
and color, and attitude, and lccomo-
ton, whether crouched in the grass