The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-02-17
DEER THAT SEEK PROTECTION,
Things That Drive the Timid Beasts
 Into the Company of Man.

Things That Drive the Timid Beasts Into the Company of Man. l Some time ago." said a Sullivan lcounty citizen, "the Sun published an item about young deer, pursued by | dogs, that bounded into a Maine village and virtually sought the protection of boy in the street. That might seem ] to be an amazing story, but to any one who has lived where wild deer abound and has observed their nature it is an incident by no means uncommon.
 Every woodman knows that al- though the wild deer is the most timid of animals and dreads intensely the sight or scent of man, the female deer, when wounded and pressed by hunter or hound, or when pressed closely and as yet unhurt, will seek the protection of human beings or their habitations. Buck lawns will also seek such protec- ton, but no buck that has come to the dignity of horns will show such dispo- sition; at least none to my knowledge has ever done so.
 "The strange part of this disposition on the part of does and lawns is that they plainly ask for the protection they seek The most striking instance of this I ever knew what that of the splen- did doe that sought refuge from dan ger at the hamlet of Cooley, in Sullivan county.
 "A. G. Welch, of that place, was eat
 ing his supper, when he saw the doe come bounding from the woods into his dooryard He hurried to the door, and the doe trotted straight to him and would have entered the house, but he was so startled that he slammed the door in the deer's face.
 'The deer then went to a window and looked appealingly through. The ami mai was panting heavily and was plain ly very tired, but the door was not opened for it to enter, and the animal departed.
 From Welchs place the doe went to Melvin Carley's about half mile away Carley was sitting in his kitch- en, and hearing a noise, looked up and saw the deer standing at window, rubbing the pane with it's nose, and locking longingly in at Carley, who be- ing an experienced hunter. knew at once that the deer was fleeing from dogs or hunters.
 He went out, and the deer followed him, or rather walked close by his side
 to the barn, where he locked it up. Once in the barn the deer lay down. so nearly run to death had it been. It had been shot in the back and on the leg
 "Carley fed the deer and doctored it's wounds, and when 1t was sound and well again he offered it it's liberty, but the grateful beast refused to take 1t, and it is still in Carley's possession, all though it's rescue occurred two years ago. As it was violation of the game law to have a deer in his possession Carley had to get a special permit from the game protector to- give the shelter to the deer that the deer insisted on having.
 T know of an instance in which a fawn, pursued by dogs, ran into a farm house and jumped into the lap of the farmers wife, who was peeling apples in the kitchen. That fawn remained on the farm and became such a pet that when she disappeared one fall there was great lamentation in the family, and a good reward was offered for her re- covery.
 "As no trace of her could be found it was at last concluded that she had been killed by some ruthless person. But this was not the case, for the doe reap peared one day in the following spring. with 8. pretty little spotted fawn by her side, and there was great rejoice ing.
 "The fawn was buck fawn, and along in the next summer it went away and never came back. The doe, how ever never left the farm again and died on It at good age"-New York Sun.