The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-09-27


10 git hurt.
Il suppose" ventured one of the par
ty. that a person cannot get a deer
out of season.
IN bet you anything you please
asserted sam" that if you want a
deer you can give & guide S. any time
Of year-dOn't care what time II Is
and he'll bring you deer
Where are the game wardensE
said l.
THE game constable is the most
hated man in the North Woods" de-
clared sam" with personal rancor.
He is the natural enemy Of the guide
and the huntsman. Why. the only
way a guide can make his living is get
ting deer. If a fellow was after deer
out OF season, or with the hounds, or
lacking ! wouldn't give Is cents for
the game constable's life If he came
along Just then. The hunter sees the
bushes move and he thinks it's a deer.
Mighty easy TO think it's deer if the
game e0nstable's around and land a
load of buckshot in the bushes. What
can anybody do? The man shoots at
deer and the game constable hap
pened 10 be there
Them fellers takes mighty big
resks." interpolated the farmer.
You bet they do. I wouldn't have
their job for anything" assented one OF
the huntsmen.
TITS funny thing, but no matter
when a game constable comes along
the news of his coming always gets
ahead Of him." said Sam" Fellows
get wind that he's on the trail, and
they pass the word along. so if you
happen 10 have hound you send him
off TO hide him in the woods some
where
"One time Watson and l were camp
ing, and he had a hound all clipped and
ready TO go after deer, when along
came the game warden TO Watson's
camp. Soon as he heard the constable
was coming he says TO me: Here,
Sam" go take that dog and hide him
In the hay NOW up In the barn
Il hadn't any more than got the dog
hid when the constable came up. Ev-
erything was all quiet and serene and
we gave him the glad hand and made
things mighty pleasant for him. Well,
after while, Watson had to see to his
cooking, or do his chores, or some
thing, when what should that game
constable do but wander of toward the
barn! I tell you. Watson was in a
peck of trouble. He didn't know what
to do TO head that man off before he
reached the barn where he couldn't
help hearing that dog abusing the hay
NOW. Watson got desperate. He
picked up the bell and rang it hard.
The man was near the barn, but he
turned around and went back. He knew
the bell meant dinner, although il was
a bit early
Nov, there's a stretch OF road run
ming about mile and a quarter along
an inlet into the lake where we were
camped, and the game constable bad
to take that road home. Watson says
to me: For heavens sake, take that
dog up the road and hide him some
where. Get him out OF the way
AS soon as Watson and his visitor
sat down to dinner went up the road
with the dog. But our troubles We're
not over. The game constable hadn't
any more than finished his dinner when
he said he must 60 Well, sir, there
were those dog tracks in the road just
where our unwelcOme guest would see
them. Watson was in a stew.
Well says he. what's your hurry?
If you must go. there's my boat; jump
IN that and I'll row you up a mile or
so and save you walkin'.'
WatsOn's heart settled back into the
right place when the game constable
got into the boat. He ToWed him up
the inlet right past the road for a
mile and quarter, and then Watson
came back down the road. got the dog
and took him back to camp.
I swan. That was a close shaver
exclaimed the farmer.
IF a hound starts on the track of
a deer, there's only two things will stop
him-when he gets the deer or drops
from exhaustion said Sam One day
a dog that had gone wild OF the scent
came into our camp and fell. He was
so stifr and sore and starved he couldn't |
move. We picked him up and carried
him in, rubbed him with oil, and put |
him by the fire and nursed him for
four days By that time he could walk
a little, but that hound looked a hun
dred years old.
Hounds viii follow a deer till their /
feet get raw from the twigs in the !
forest and tester up just like a boil. /
Just before the season opened we used |
to get in the hounds and trim their 1
nails so they could run easily, and feed I.
them up into prime condition. and then /
when the season began they were eager J
for a start. My. Didn't we have fun! |
The deer had no chance at all. We /
would station ourselves along the run |
ways. and when the dogs had driven /
him the deer would take TO water, and |
we had him. Can't do that nowadays" /
zone night, when was out lacking !
with a guide" began another member /
Of our party "a deer appeared right 4
ahead of our boat. The jack light shone \
straight on him, but I knew he was /
there before / saw him stop to recon I
hotter by the shivering of the boat. /
My guide had the buck fever so bad /
he shook the boat. He missed the /
deer with the first shot, and then got !
wild and fired into the air.
Another time. when ] was float
Ing for deer, | had the gun, and il |
was the other fellows turn with the /
jack light. When the deer came down l
10 see what the light meant, that fell
low turned it so that l could only see
his neck / fired. but all l got was
two Of his front teeth
Another man broke in: did YOU
hear about those two men who went
out for deer just before the season
opened and the game warden caught |
them? Well, sir, the warden heard !
they were going out the last day in 1
August, and he went TO their camp and |
sat down and waited for them. After |
awhile they came in bringing a deer.
ana there was the warden sitting in |
the camp"
My What a tableau!" exclaimed /
the men.
1T be tibet. I shouldn't have liked |
tO've been thar" declared the farmer.
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