The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-11-24
Awful Fooled
Wss Woodruff, Our Expert Hunter & Trapper Makes a Awful Mistake
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Yves woodruff, our expert hunter and trapper, met with experience last Thursday, which he says was most pe- kuliar experience he ever encountered in all his experience as a hunter..It also cost him $500.
 Yves has been trying to shoot deer all fall and he has come pretty near doip 1t too on several occasions. but not quite. Only last week while he was hunting deer after a little skift of snow, he got on the track of one and chased 1t what he caIkilates must have been about il miles, clean up over the back side Of Sawridge Mountin. where he lost the track and got lost hisself and the dark ness come on and poor wes wondered around all the whole live long night, cussing and swearing and praying by spells and almost froze and on the verge of starvation. Next morning as soon as 1t got light Yves got his bearings and reached Bingville.
 But that experience don't hold a can- c1e to what happened to Yves last Thurs day. wes he shouldered his shot gun, be- ing as he allus hunts deers with shot gun because he can shoot straighter with it than he can with rfAe, and started out after deer. Yves followed the road down Snake Bend way for two miles then he cut across country until he got away back into the woods. By and by he come to a clearing where they had once been an old pasture and while he was crossing this clearing he heard a noise right off to his right in the bushes. Wes he cooked his shot gun and snuk up towards the noise trying to go as easy as possible and by and by he seen what he took to be the hind quarters of deer showin through the bushes about five rod ahead.
 Yves he put his trusty shot gun to his shoulder. took careful aim and pulled the trigger. There was awful report. Yves was kicked clean over backwards by the gun and hit the back of his head against A stone, almost renderin him hors de combat as you might say. Following the shot there was terruble belier come from the bushes ahead and then all of suddin a alderpey bull broke through the bushes and come straight at Wes who said he was never more surprised In ms life bein az he thought he had shot a buck deer instead of buck cow. Yves he dropped his gun and skun up the nearest tree just in time to excape instant deth at the hands of the bull In that position Yves remained treed until long. in the af- ternoon when the bull went off mad and Yves he climed down the tree. got his gun and come back to Bingville.
 That night when Sim Watkins. who owns the land on which Wes was huntin went out to bring his alderney bull in to the tie-up. he was considerably surprised to And the bulls rump full of buck shot, Sim would probably never rave knowed who done 1t if it hadn't beS, that Yves told the joke on hisself at Hex %eathers- hv,s store and as soon as it got to the ears of Sim, he drove right into Bing- vile and hunted wes up and told him that he considered he had did his alder nev b,lll $500 worth of damage and un- less he paid him the money he would have him put in jail for assault and bat terv on the bull This scared Wes and he paid Sim the $500 right off.
 Sim says he considers he let Yves off easv considering the horrible time he had in irwin to pick them shot out or his al- derney bull and riskin bis life to do It. Yves says he calkilates next time ne shoots a bun for a deer 1t will be aw- ful cold day.