The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-12-28
EMF COMPANY, Detroit, Michigan

in the hind parts, and IL moved with
difficulty. For a moment her wom-
anly sympathy got the better Of her,
and she hesitated about shooting. But
then a second thought told her that in
that condition the deer would only
crawl away and die, or fall prey to the
catamounts. and she fired. The deer
bounded as we'll as It could. so that it
was partly hidden behind a fallen hem
lock treetop, and when, she had made
a detour of a swampy place and come
UP within ten feet of the tree top the
deer had escaped her entirely. She
moved cautiously for she new that with
his old wound and the one her bullet
had inflicted the animal must soon
give up the fight for escape.
Miss Stiffel pulled herself up onto
the large part of the treetop to make
observations of the surroundings, and
in doing so she rested her rifle against
the limbs within easy reach, as she
thought. At that instant the deer rose
under the tree top in the hope that it
might hide and ESCAPE.
Miss Stiffel made a quick move for
her gun, but the confusion of both
herself and the deer against the bushy
tree top caused the gun to topple out
OF her reach and fall to the ground
among the limbs. And to make mat
tiers worse, the buck, finding himself
so badly wounded as to be unable to
escape but yet able to rise on his front
quarters and drag himself forward,
made vicious attack upon the young
woman, who found herself without de-
Tense and in a terribly disadvantageous
position.
Most Dangerous Species.
The buck was a four-pronged fell
low, and an unusually strong and big
one, with neck on him as thick as
hickory tree, while his eyes flashed
out the defiance of a dying monarch
that he was. The first assault re-
suited in Miss Stfffef being siashed in
the face by one of the limbs that the
force of the blow sent smarting
against her, md before the wounded
buck had an opportunity to recover
and charge again she had backed out
of reach, though her movement was
in the opposite direction from her gun
and directly in the very thickesr part
of the tree top.
knew that she was responsible for a
part of his trouble, and he pushed his
way through the limbs toward her to
renew the onslaught.
To her dismay Miss Stiffel about
this time discovered that the bottom
Of her hunting skirt had become fas-
tened to snag on the tree top and
in order to permit herself TO go even
an inchefurther she had to lean for
ward and loose the garment. This
put her body within range of the at
lacking buck, and what the next in
slant would have brought to pass
would be hard to determine IL Miss
StiffePs brother, who had heard the
shot and started at once in her d.
rection had not come upon the scene.
/ Without as much as telling his sis
ter that he was there he was UP and
sent a bullet through the menacing
deer and 1t dropped in a pile among
the limbs of the tree.
i An odd feature of the incident
was that when the deer was dragged
out Miss Stiffers gun was found be-
meath it, the creature having fallen
on the spot on which she had placed
her gun when she crept into the tree
/ top to reconnoitre. The original shot
had broken one Of the deers legs
The animal is believed to have been
one that had Teen shot at by a mem
Der of Miss Stiffel's party the day
Iprevious.