Anadarko daily democrat. [volume] (Anadarko, Oklahoma) 1901-190?, 1902-04-01
SORGET FEAR OF MAN
DEER KNOWN TO SEEK PRoTEC-
TloN AT FARM HOUSES.
Two Remarkable Instances That Arc
Nouched for-One Animal Displayed
Intelligence That wa. Almost Human
Gratitude OF IA Fawn.

ON
Some time ago" said Sullivan
county citizen, the Sun publisheH an
item about q young deer pursued by
dogs. that bounded into Maine vii
lage and virtually sought protection
Of boy in the street. That might
seem to be an amazing story, but 10
any one who has lived where wild deer
abound and has,observed their nature
it is an incident by no means uncom-
mon w .t.A>i
Every woodman kn9ws that al
though the wild deeris the most timid
of animals and breads intensely the
agM yor scent of.man, the female deer,
when Wounded, and pressed by huntor
or hound, op'when pressed closely and
as yet unhurt, will seek the protection
Of human beifgs or their habitations.
Bhck fawns viii also seek such pro
tfction, but no buck that has come tc
the dignity of horns will show such =
disposition; at least none to my
knowledge has ever done so. -
THE strange part of this disposition
on the part of does and fawns is that
they plainly ask for the protection
they seek The. most striking instance
of this j ever knew was that of the
splendid doe. that sought refuge from
danger at the hamlet of Cooley, in Sui.
livan county.
"A. G.. Welch of that place, was eat
ing his supper when he saw the dos
come bounding from the woods into
his dooryard. He hurried to the door
and the doe trotted straight to him
and would have entered tLe house, bat
Welch was so startled that he slam
med the door in the deers face.
The deer then went to a window
and looked appealingly through. The
animal was painting heavily, and was
plainly very tired, but the door was
not opened for it to enter, and it de
parted.
From Welchs place the doe went
to Melvin Carleys, about half a mile
away. Carley was sitting in his kitch-
en-. aud hearing a noise, looked up an
saw the deer standing at a window
rubbing the pane with its nose, and
looking longingly in at Carley, who
being an experienced hunter, knew al
once that the deer was fleeing from
dogs or hunters.
HE went out and the Geer 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. II
haan ch In hoc oh
leg.
"Carley fed the deer and doctored
it's wounds, and when il was sound and
well again he offered it its liberty,
but the grateful beast refused to take
1t, and is still in Carley's possession,
although its rescue occurred two yeari
ago.
81 know of an instance in which q
fawn pursued by dogs, ran into 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 recovery.
LAS 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
reappeared one day in the following
spring with pretty little spotted fawr
by her side, and there was great re-
joicing.
THE fawn was a buck fawn and
along in the next summer it went
away and never came back. The doe
however, never left the farm again
and died on it, at a good old age
New York Sun.