The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-09-02

bank IKE eleven ueet nhu lfll Nn .Nlo WV 49,
gone was 50 mad ! jus raised IN gun az let
loose both barrels TO ,onst an that turned the
canoe over in twenty !hTe Ho Zee, O. c, w@'e Il s sa ;
ia ~ waltin' TO- arsk me w'ether ] eit him
tell him bout N gun an he do a chippewa
wages Then do a Ieech Injun walk-eroun'
an tell him, no French elgteet,Smokrr eyer
Pumped On docE me ne ,r cent Lns;@ he ''y IL
The other man, sw, airing softly because ne
had lost three reg IN rapid suGcesssll3n, salu
I siIl hunt that deer, TN. was in August. You
couldn't heat. yourself think lr III huinmip q.
u s@keeters. Ih'Ieayo. on III, trees val 20 !n'G *
breathe 'mong EN-. tn groun' were sogRy
upder foot foT m rains an, cl!m6lp, oyer a
trees a day in III winter, There were IA, iran
plain marked eyry day roun III lakG, an now
With him. SIN, huntin' him was Ike huntln,,
fr a cartridge cap ~ a boy car q. pas. WOOD
nifty wards o him twenty times that month,
but We never see him. He useter lead vs. ronn.
, sa 5iGn mIil liz b sGS4 d dinner rS@" an ' lever T' be three
mile fom tn lake. Then, wen we'd give It up
r.. tn day, we'd hear a snort someTs near w.
inter tn brush. an that'd eendit OF SalRe
we're one o. these redfGce, wite-mqstash
FreHchmuq watts obst.nit as Liss. az, ne let
thunder vile him an tn hay hans chasedth,,
buck They was fifteen o as an | caIk s ted
gether era miles an eight rod But we never
git no buck. -,
oe rGS @. 's ses t SalRS an any yen Jay i@'f round ui5f' tE ns"! an
spen' my good money, CAIN elt mat deer
oHt'9 nv 6aid, an | CANT st 'nGqFn : ED ia
Ter had him that night on II. late IN October
ID leaves turn red an f2ll Of maxim ~, w0tdt
come down To- Then McWHIhrteerr lo5pess inter town.
McWhirter's n Srotchmun rom a loggin'. camp
over on Biz Beaver, lie cain't shoot much. but
he's got u pair O. laigs on. him like flshin poles.
an he's good fr sixty mile a day seven days In
u week. It's his bushes. TO be telione tween
I Nsrs a inlaPP runner ntwecn the Mississippi an
Lake Michigan a, could touch him fr eatin w
tn groun' He's had a row an whipped IN
camp cook cause tn grub weren't up 10 con-
trac'. an he's quit. says to him we gotter cit
that deer, an he SAYS to me how much money
/ got, an I says to him, nearly s. an he says to
Ner' morning, with some grub an Ticker an
blankets an our guns, We hit IN woods II
we hit EN- you could a-heard us hum. luseter
be lumber amp ~tel'fone myself,
bo I'VE been zee s, III LeiGu FI"f Ia Ssn Inre We're Tee III
buck we're. but ~ weren't there. Meantime tn
snow'd come Gown more'n a foot deep, me
OUT a hole in III ice Wen We m III trail we
foller il ag lie ius' 10 see that II rIn bout In u,
had him fhtS McWhlrter was shore a smart
scotchu un. He couldn't shoot none, tut he
| WAS SnOTr STlhTI ne SAYS W INC llhl bu'h
s back on his Of stompiu-groun'- an. he's zoin'
To hang roun' here all winter; He got his
partner With HIN, as we see oy n, double ,ra,i
Lake with a axe, he says take him fr
twelve hour an wen I quit him he wont be
take HIM fr " hours. The SHOWS deep
he saws, an the buck = big Us a moose, says he,
an he'll break through !, crust an bleed Ike
YOU pe ssete ri be- S4t says he. Tw1sS'iRi sit him shore
Then saws lin good to trot III laig5 of'n
dollar until IN eagle th'owel fits, says I an we
git out tn snow shoes McWhirter hc gifts - at
daylight next porpin, an b takes a bianEiI an,
bikes, / stay in camp all day an coon grub an
ketcb fsh through III ice an, bout a hour BY
s sIaI, ! ifFaEit on q NILE Riy a fHq pwo f han sisrd4' y ard ir'oomn
camp, an a half-mile iurder on | come M TO
MoWhirter, eatn' his last pIeca Q bread an fish
miles an a quarter. AMI says 10 him to git back
to camp, were he can lie TO hlsself In comfort.
an to give q shore-nough camp telifone a
II foller that trail all night II were dark tr
awile, l~eastwise as dark as I ever gets to be
an keel Mr.. Buck h%ustlin', There meyer was
no deer like that deer. Bout daylight take a
good look at N. trsil an CANT see az MS stride
trail long side O. his'n seems bout like Il were.
do sixty-three. miles an, two rods wen
20 back to camp. All this time Ii buck been
travellin' In a succle bout Ave miles wide an in
this part O. tn country III, snow Amt so deep.
there, l go out TO m trail agin at shutdown an
Mc%hiJsSr' bout f t%R mile ss 5boi an 9Hbm 41Ssd i hook hook.
s 20 ,sssFp on he saws lSt to me he links Ii two
deer Is eettn' ready 70 break away TO th' ives.
Luckily hiring my gun with M, AZ, / tell him
10 77olIer EN- 81 they makes II the Paceeac
oshup -. trail .v,,o,o.
a little an started as straight, wes', as, you
could draw a line. Same time tn stride o tn
deer got Tor ger an, ! sided on them snow
shoes ike | was gittin' a dollar a slide After
woods as light as day. lords mornin' III snow
s s9x de s s6 b an b sn ok isr 6T y p 'ss cr, rG 20 20 .ITiEesIss
around n holes He gas bleedin' fom a cut;
shorter, but Ions bout 8 in tn mornin' see
whore tn smalles der had laid down for a
!setls vile; Then nj ! H Sn " ib J had lo one s o ,sm
wuth an, it'd done you good to hear me
at O'clock Twas mor'nffty mile f,om calnpin
tn 'thickeS woods you ever hear Of Three times
the Titles deer had laid down an says 20 my
self SAYS is tine fr me TO GO Low an, look a
mos thirty foot deer. a hundred yard wide an
runqin' way 20 th' ives | caint tell how fur.
then pceetin through the tree trunks, I see 10
the middle tn Titles deer down in th'snow, an
cain git Up, zee a small lair O. horns SICK,
w young Tn b 9rG w. so mHo o IT, Of ma man II Of mans
standiu' three hundred yard furder of an
lookin' straight AT me. tn sun shines on his
sides an they's dappled in black. spots, mos
beautiful. He had tn fines set o. horns a.. ever
tore through tn Moth Woods ar no held en-
up high, proud and scornful like. takes care
iul aim a. tn Titles deer down In tn snow m
/ plugs hin straight through tn neck lie
gives a culver ur two an that was all. At tn
crack 9th gun | looks through tn smoke an
| SEE the big dappled Teller chargin, me, like a
bull moose. H. horns is down an they looks
like a tres-tOp made O. bone an | knows II thew
git inter me somebodyll find my clothes m
hair under tn snow mex spring. 'Twere a sin
gle-shot rifle | had an they weren't no time TO
load agin. jus drop III gun an swing up In
ter tn branches T a tree. tn big dappled fell
Ter, blinded by snow ur crazy ur ,somepn,
swings on past me an in five seconds more is
out O. sight, goin' due cas-
81 climb down arter aw lie an go 10 the dead
deer In tn holler. Ihope | may fall outn' this
boat an be eat by muscles II il weren't doe
"a horned doc. tn only one l ever seed ur
heerd OF. TIL horns was bout tn size o tn
horns o. a two-year-ol buck, an they growed
straight up f'om u eyes. This doe we're as BIG
as any buck I ever see, but she seemed little
wen sized up with III other one. | skinned her
and TUX her head and started back 10 camp.
"McWhirter an me never see. the tran o tn
dapplcd buck any more We staid rouu'
Tetourneau fr a month. but they weren't no
sign O. him., Ne alkerlated that he mus a-kep'
on Coin'. Mex March. howsoever, l happened
to be fallin' timber near tn big holler an
somep'n drawed me TO tn place Were killed