Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1908-09-10

The bright-colored patch disappeared
and in our oilskin overcoats in suffi-
cient quantity to make coffee, having
with infinite difficulty started a
smouldering fire just to leeward of the
wagon. The horses, feeding on the
soaked grass, did not need water. An
antelope, with the bold and needless
curiosity sometimes shown by It's
tribe, came up within two hundred
yards of us as we were building the
fire, but though one of us took shot
at him, it missed. Our snaps and Oil
skins had kept us perfectly dry. and
as soon as our frugal supper was over,
we coiled up among the boxes and
bundles inside the wagon and slept
soundly till daybreak.
When the sun rose next day, the
third we were out, the sky was clear,
and we two horsemen at once pre-
pared to make hunt. Some three
miles off TO the south of where we
We're camped. the plateau on which
we were sloped off into Il great eX-
panse of broken ground, with chains
upon chains of steep hills, separated
by deep valleys, winding and branch
ing in every direction, their bottoms
filed with trees and brushwood. To
ward this place we rode, intending to
go into it some little distance, and
then to hunt along through it near the
edge.
AS soon as we got down near the
brushy ravine we rode along without
talking, guiding the horses as far as
possible on earthly places, where they
would neither stumble nor strike their
feet against stones, and not letting our
rifle barrels or spurs clink against any
thing. Keeping outside of the brush
Il little up the side of the hill, one of
us would ride along each side of the
ravine, examining intently with our
eyes every clump of trees or brush
wood For some time we saw. nothing
but, finally, as we were riding both to-
gether round the jutting spur of Il
steep hill, my companion suddenly
brought his horse to n halt, and point
ing across the shelving bend TO patch
of trees well up on the opposite side of
4 broad ravine, asked me if | did not
see deer in it, | was off the horse in
q second, throwing the reins over his
head We were in the shadow of the
cliff-shoulder, and with the wind IL
our favor; so we were unlikely to he
observed by the game. | looked long
and eagerly toward the spot indicated
which was about hundred and TWEEN
ty-five yards from us, but at first coulu
sec nothing BY this time, however
the experienced plainsman who was
with me was satisfied that he was
right in his supposition, and he told
me to try again and look for Il patch
of red. | saw the patch at once. just
glimmering through the bushes. but
should certainly never have dreamed ii
was a deer If left to myself. Watch
ing 1t attentively | soon saw it move
enough to satisfy me where the head
lay; kneeling on one knee and (as II
was little beyond point-blank range
holding at the top of the portion Wis
ible. | pulled trigger. and the bright
colored patch disappeared from amona
the bushes The aim was a good 0nN
for, on riding up to the brink of = '
ravine we saw fine Whitehall bu, =,
lying below us shot through just !
hind the shoulder: he was still In T.
red coat. with his antlers in the vcl,.n
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