The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-11-03

pot near the fireplace. Then he just lay
down and fell asleep and his Jersey calf
came along and smelt at him, stuck its
nose into the pot and gObbled up nearly
the whole OF the vegetables.
Jersey calfI' said I. What was a Jersey
-'Oh, Tsuppoke the shiftless old thing had
il come along to eat up the scraps. i am
thankful he didn't bring all his pigs. aren't
See here. I called TO the countryman,
what kind Of a calf have you had around
here mussing up things"
~'CalR?' he answered. Not calf. but a
good big doe deer, | guess IL was, ate up
the dinner. Calf! My hunder'
Well. that was IL, right enough. My
huntress wife sat there with her baby maya
zine rife beside her. sewing up a tear in
her clothes, and watched a fine deer steal
our Inner and walk away again, and never
dreamed Of its being a deer which was max
ing itself at home that way
you remind me OF our hOOdOo deer az
the Castor" broke in another man. We
were camping up there. three OF u.s. with
out a guide.
Every morning we would start the break
fast. get a good fire going under it and then
get of down the railway track 20 a lovely
spring where we used to make our toilets.
| As we came back one day We spied a mag
%nificent buck with a prodigious, spread
OF aptlers with neck cautiously. out
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pots as they hung on a stick supported by
two forked stakes over the fire.
He must nave smelt us. for on a sudden
without looking around he jumped across
the fire. knocking down our breakfast OF
course, and made away into the woods.
We hunted all that day after that deer and
got right on his track, but we couldn't
get sight of him..
about midnight one Of the party couldn't
sleep n stepped out Of b tent in his
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moments after we heard him o and
then there was an awful cluttertng about
the tent Opes and down came our canvas
on top OF US. ,
deer trying to commit burglary upon our
provision tent and inadvertently gave the
alarm which frightened the thing into let
ting down the sleeping tent.
THE next morning as we were washing
way at our spring a little snort attracted
our attention TO the fence at the side OF the
track. where not twelve yards away stood
our friend the stag. his chin on top OF. the
wires. apparently criticising our toilet. OF
course we never thought OF taking a gun
along when we went TO wash.
How we did hunt for that deerl And we
never could get sight Of him, though we
when we returned home at night, our
provision tent was split up the hack, and
we all exclaimed together, 'ConfOund that
old deerl' or something like that. There
were his tracks inside all right. He had
merely called TO get our -four, bread and
salt, and TO nibble a bit Of our bacon.
I'VE resolved TO devote our last day
to our friend, and made the best kind Of
hunt Tor him but could I'M nothing Of
him. Just before dark we came out OF
the bush onto the railway track, and the
lad OF the crowd ran back to where he had
left his Goat. OF course he didn't take
his rife with him.
He turned the corner to find our friend
the deer chewing away at his coat pocket
in which were some raisins and a piece of
ship biscuit. He must have had most Of
the coat in his mouth. for as he jumped
he stuck his hoofs into III sleeve and tore
the coat into rags.
Il don't mind owning up to sitting up
all that last night hoping tho deer would
attempt some Of his tricks upon us. OF
course there was no such luck and we
took tho Q o'clock down train from the
little static half a mile above us. !
we TODD OF the platform to see the
last Of our camping place, when the con-
ductOr remarked, You left n fine fellow
anyway There on a little knoll overlooking
the Castor Lake stood our deer, his great
head over the wire fence. and a mOurnfuI
expression about him. as though he realized
he would miss. al when we we're gone