The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-11-03
DEER GET AFTER HUNTERS
ONE MAN HAD HIS HAT KNOCKED
OFF ON A RUNWAY.

Holes Punched In q Canoe ON q Mans BACK
Another Canoe and Its Occupant
Unset by a Deer-A woman Hunters
M~lstake-story % the HOO Deer.
Hull, Canada. Nov. THE mex thing I
knew a deer jumped right over my head.
Knocked on my hat n was on before l
could pull my rife
1t was in a smoking room. Just at this
point another smoker looked up lazily n
demanded. What's the row.
you see.' said the first speaker. I'VE
were deer hunting up the Oatineau. not far
from the ~Pemichongon. Two OF US were
stationed on a runway. h guides went
back a mile OF 90 TO put in the dogs n
we were to nail the deer as they made for
the lake.
-On the first day we sat up and waited
and that was all. The second day ditto.
The third day we took the cook along to
keep watch and took two cushions.
1T was just fine to lie fat in hat splendid
place and do nothing put take in solid
comfort. Naturally we fell asleep.
along about 3 O'Clock l was awakened by
a blow on the head. as l was just telling
our friend here. 1 jumped up to realize
that as / lay asleep on the side OF the run
way a fine stag had jumped over me and
knocked on my hat.
my companion was still sound asleep
beside me and on the other side Of the
path sat the cook bolt upright, his back
against a tree. mouth open and snoring
like a slide trombone. BY the time we were
on our feet the deer was near the other
side OF the lake and the hounds had como
along and we're at the provisions.
That was the only deer we really saw
plainly, and we lost him through the bomi-
nable oarelessness Of our cook. Too bad.
wasn't N?'
1T reminds me OF an experience on the
Magnasippi, up the Ottawa. said the next
hunter. I'VE couldn't find any deer. so
we started TO move. 1t fell to my lot to
lug the canoe.
Il was loafinE along. smoking Inc taking
things easy, when I felt sons one knocking
at the end OF the canoe behind me. 1 did
not think much OF it for a bit, until a pretty
hard rap Jared me rather badly and l
| shouted out, Quit your fooling back there,
will your
"A little after came another blow, and
Just then it struck me that the boys were
| all on ahead. In a jiry l threw the birch
bark on one side, and looked back 10 see
a beautiful big stag standing there with
his head and great ears up straight az
though he was stagestruck.
IL could have knocked him over with
a revolver, for he never started TO runf Tor
nearly a minute. but, bad luck to it. !
hadn't anything more dangerous h a
paddle with me.
@Afterward I found he had prOdded a
couple OF holes right through the bark
canoe with his horns in his inQuisitive
knocking at IT,. For I suppose he was
following the canoe and poking at it, trying
to find out what new kind OF a forest mon
ster it might be.
The deer are often very curious about
things Arrange to them. Another time
I was lying fat in a canoe waiting for deer
to come along. .
-Did YOU ever try lying still in n small
twelve foot birchs canoe for hours at q
time2 It's pretty. trying. l can tell you
and I suppose either the exertion or the
AT any rate, l found myself being
turned over into the cold water very
steadily and deliberately. Half awake, !
shouted out pretty angrily, Stop that
now Then as / got 20 my feet in half q
yard OF water and mud, there stood a deer
on the other side OF the upturned canoe
momentarily paralysed with fright.
1T was only for an instant, though. h
was OF and away in the woods long before
I had dug up my rife with my foot and
taken hold OF It. Probably he toe had beer
in an Investigating humor and upset the
canoe TO find out what might be- in It,"
Say. this is just whore the story Of my
wife's deer comes in" remarked anothe
man. W were after dec and had go
u to a grand place near a big lake. with
q beaver meadow at one end. where the
deer used to lie around at night like oattlC
in a COW yard. We made q camp in the
bush, a tent for VS. and a brush leanto FOL
the settler who was our guide.
-On the first day put on rubber boots
and tramped through the beaver Meadow
and up the creek TO get M lay Of the coun,
try and And out where the deer spent the
day. When I got back again my wife wal
tuning about the wastefulness and care
l~essness Of the guide.
He peeled nearly half a tin pailfu
Of potatoes; peeled them as thiok as that.
she said. Then he sliced about all thu
carrots in along with them, put In a grea
allna Of AIT nork and eft IL al In An opaI