The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-08-08
DAVIS LITTLE FAVORITE
Exploit Of the Ex Senator'S
Granddaughter.
LOVER OF THE WILDWOOD FOLK

How the Democratic vice Presi-
Dental Nominee's Pea GrandcbiId
Tanned the Deer at Graceiand-Lif-
tie -year-oid il sort Of
Motiser 10 senator's GranaeisiIdren.
why is it that the people Of Elkins
say that your twelve-year-oid grand
daughter Katharine Grace Brown is
your favorite grandeaild9 the New
York World correspondent ii Elkins,
". VA, asked ex-senator Henry CASA
way Davis, the Democratic candidate
for vice president.
8Ir. Davis chuckled.
4 suppose because she is the most
ike me, he answered. @Yon see, she
is the only one Of MY granddaughters
who wishes that she had been born a
boy
10 say that little Miss Brown Is a
''tombeyn Is far from 4 truth She
Is a pretty, buoyant. athletic little girl
with dark brown hair and brown eyes,
and IS entirely feminine in her appear
anee. But she plays outdoors all day
long at Graceland. the country home Of
her grandfather at EIkins, and tile hay
makers say that She is the best farmer
in the town She knows by kicking
her little russell shoes among the dry
hay just when it Is ripe to be rakcd
and cooked for the wagons. She knows
when tie corn is full III the ear and
where the ripest strawberries grow
But her most noted feat was the
tanning and training of the wild nouns
tain deer in Mr.. Davis preserves.
These deer are the common Wild vir-
ginia deer, very beautiful ana Shy.
They were caught on the hills and
since being turned into the game ranges
have increased and multiplied till they
are the envy Of every wealthy man
who visits Graceiand. But Shannon
Hardman, the gamekeepeE could 10
nothing with them They ran into the
jungle every time he approached to
feed them, and visitors at Gfaceland
could not get sight of them.
Il can't tame them 4 nile said
Hardman heIplessiy
POOH You don't % about Ii right. Y
said Miss Katharine. II can tssaa any
thing ] tanned grandpa, and ggess /
can tame the deer
The next day size took white silk
handkerchief and d pail Of bran ana
went up over the hin to the deer park.
Sitting down IN a hollow, she elevated
the handkerchief GA d stick ana held
the curious signal Just where the mill
/ eyed does and the antlercd bucks could
see II waving in the breeze Now. there
IS nothing III all the world So filled with
curiosity as deer and some one had
told Katharine this secret. The deer
saw the white object and edged
down for O better look. Nearer and
nearer they came till they got good
look at the little girl-~and then scam
pered away
The next day she sprInkled bran near
the hollow and again lifted her hand
kerchief Again the deer folk crept
down for a look and discovered the
bran They ate it tlmidly and scam
perea away In week the deer were
coming TO her when she held up the
handkerchief and eating from the pail
il her hands. And before long they
came running 70 meet her whenever
she appeared. After 4 time she intro.
dueed them to Hardman. and when
they found he always had bran it was
IN easy matter to call them
| Miss Katharine insists on spell
ing il with an "a is the oldest of the
ex-senator grandchildren and is a sort
OF little mother 70 them. Since my
mother died she said to the reporter
| 4 have had To BE 4 mother 10 myself
and 50 | have got used IL caring for
little children