The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-09-02
CHASE OF THE DOUBLE DEER
HERGY THE GUIDE TELLS or A
MONARCH or THE WOODS.
The Back Seemed TO he Two stories HiEh end
with Gifts That Densd the Hunter-Tan
walking by Fersy ana the scotchman
Varied Rn. cts Of strong WesteTn tobacco.


Varied I'm, cts Of strong western Tobacco.
! FIYIELD, Wis, Aug, N-Ths small cl,nker-
built boat noated near the south end Of Pick
ercl Lake and wenty yards from the westshore.
4 line OF tangled lly-Iads ran out 10 meet II
| and ten feet under the surface grew masses OF
weeds. The sun was setting behind the solid
wall Of balssm pines. hamlocks and spruce
tre7- and all the lake was under 4 bIue.tinged
shadow. A bass hole had been found The
other man sat In the stern. a frog bucket be-
tween hs knees. As he was hooking, fghting
and detaching his own fish. putting on tho
frogs for himself and In all ways dispensing
with the services Of the guide. Fergy rested on
his oars. There being not a breath OF wind. the
boat remained nearly stationary. II was turned
bore and there by the racing Of the four
pound bass against the strain OF tho
rod and line, but kept pretty much 10
ole position, Fergy looked on philosophically.
not speaking a word OF Encouragement when
some unusually game fighter was lifted In nor
| uttering one Of blame when II bass leaped three
feet in air, obtained a little slack and shook the
hook free from it's mouth. Finally he allowed
the oars 20 hang idly IN the water. reached into
one pocket and distracted II cornoob pipe
blackened with age and usage. from another
pocket took n handful OF tobacco which looked
like dried yellow moss. struck A match, drew in
a deep Inspiration and poisoned the air. Round
about the little craft noated a smell composed
of burning straw, hair from old mattresses.
horn buttons and something ind stingulshable.
The other man. being used 20 II, went on fish
ing
That's genuine, said Fergy Ia reference to
the tobacco. Some fellers puts II up in NIL
waukee. It's good Of, sweet OIL Wisconsin ter
hacker an II costs. laid down at Flhel' 80 cents
a poun'. You smoke some OF II an you won't
never smoke nothin' else"
The other n an. reelinR steadily in on a three
round Ash, remarked briefly; Il believe YOU.
It would kill at this distance II I didn't have a
bad cold"
'Yass. said Fergy. you gotter be a man to
smoke this here. but wen you gifts TO be a man
an tries It. it's coed One time a st Looey
Teller come up to Feely's. He had a vallse full
o. ST. Looey scegyars an a trunk fun o bottled
beer. lie drinked tn beer all dav an wen half
o. It was gone he went upstairs to bed II was
ar,er II O'Clock at night, | slep' down in tn
guide house, eight rod away, an bimeby I be-
gin TO dream bout a glue fact'ry ! seen onst IN
Canady. III glue fact'ry wore on fire an I'd
Jus climbed up nine ladders an reskied a red
headed gal | useter know, wen I hear Fire!
FIRE. an mex mint I'm up to tn hotel ready
to co bizness.
In front Is the Teller rom ct Looey .barefooted
an wearin' a pair o pyjammys. o. man FeeIy
in a niehtshirt ripped bali OF n him, four SER
vint gals In curl Papers screamin' like a loon
with a musky a-holt o his Upper an out In tn
yard. lyin on tn groun'. a long. crooked black
thing with FIRE on tn eend o IL that smelt Lord.
Lord. how 1t smelt. II was one o. them st.
Iooey seegyars. Tn feller'd got INTO bed
bout 70, arter knockin' the souls out'n four
,,ar, hattlaa on11It IN atinE vdoory ~ man
Feely. thlnkin' tn house was ahre an trailin'
tn scent Of this Teller S room, had a-knooke ed on
tn door an alarmed on tn door an nnerly
Kicked tn door in. Tn ST. Looey chap. wat
we're coed an beeryby that time. grabbed him
wen he broke In an IL was they two 10 tn
floor. They rolled downstairs together an out
on tn front gallery. were Feely. shoutin'
Gaelic. had a-ckoked tn seegyar out'n his foe
man mouth an chucked IL away. II was tn
servint gals as did tn FIRE. hollerin'. Say. I
ha oder laugh. Mex day Feely took the beer
away f'om tn Teller an drunk II hisself to keep
II f'om dom any more harm. an he tol' tn fell
Ter 10 smoke puides's terbacker ur walk twenty
two miles into Fifel' an take tn fust south
boun' freight wat come long He lef' there
ten days arterward. smokin' this sort O. ter
hacker an feelin' fine. I guess he's smokin' II
yet. We buried tn box o seesyars whole"
The other man. his thoughts apparently a
thousand miles awar, nxed the single hook be-
hind his No. 9 spoon through the lips Of a large
green fros and. with q quick sway Of the steel
rod, sent It hurtling forty feet away. 1t struck
the water with q splash close to q single pad
that grew far out from its fellows, At the
instsnta muskallonge Of fifteen pounds sprans
savasely upward. rolled heavily over the frog
and disappeared.
Damn himl" said Fergy alphabetically. He
dldn' have no idee OF snatchin' that frog He
JUS wants to SIX eer way all o. ID bass. I'd like
10 shoot him with a io-gauge shotgun loaded
with rusty nail heads.
The other man reeled in swiftly. the crank OF
the Observation-Disclosures fairly jerking tho
bait through the still water. and cast again
10 s-other direction. A larse-mouth bass
struck instantly and the line began to sing,
while the slender rod tip bent 70 the sur
face and dipped under. The Ash
captured; the other man III a cigar and
idly examined his bait 10 see the damage done
to It's tender flesh by the teeth OF the captive.
On the far edge Of the lake. a half mile away.
three brown spots showed suddenly. Instant
ly the guIde became interested and pointed
them out TO bis companion. The other man sat
with the frog held loosely In his fingers and
gazed. A doe and two hslf.srovn fawns had
tOlUt uOWu u ue uUSe uilnh, a ucdl On the
lily pads and a half hour Of play In the twilight
Too far away 10 fear danger they raced along
the waters edge. the fawns easily outstripping
the mother. leaped high in succession and came
down belly deep in the clear lake, browsed
awhile, then raced rnadly in circles. springing
the one over the other. pretending 20 fall.
sprinsing up again with the rapidity OF light
ming, INDUCING in a thousand graceful antics,
wild. unfettered, instinct with the Joy Of living,
The fish we're forgotten by the human pair, but
II was Fergy who broke the spell. No sight or
sound OF nature could keep him silent for long.
"They's a-many deer In this country" he be-
gan softly. but they's jus ordinary deer like
them yonder. Mos times one deer Is like
ernuther, but now an then you run acrost one
out o. tn common Ten year ago, " en- no fores'
fires had been through here an the woods was
a heap thlcker'n an greener'n wat they be
now, there was a deer used roun' Letourneau
Lake as was a Wonder, Nobody knoved were
he come f'om. ur jus wen he come. | weren't
auidin' then but was helpin' 20 make hay fr a
Frenchmun name Salge. TIL fus' we knowed O.
this deer was fndin' a half acre o. young corn
chewed up an Lruk down an rampled They
weren't no gap In tn fence an tn fence were
eight foot six inches high. We foun' tn spot
were tn deer had went over il without touchin'
a hair, They was ten acre o corn In that hel',
but In a month II weren't wuth ratherin' I
never see anythin' so destructive a. that deer
He'd jump III fence in tn night somewhere an
somehow. Ill his belly an then go 20 kickin' an
stampin' 'roun' mos prodeejus. We laid fr