Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1911-10-18
pEEss A PLENTY.
nav the Old-Time Hunters Could
Get venfson.

tsYes" said an olo Koo1oont OF the Ale.
.h.nv and Susqushanna hsadwatsrs re-
.;on, ssthers are deer enough UT In the
ssoods in the northern tier OF Penn
'.,v.nis counties to provide sport for the
- Of the lsttsr-day hunters, but the
...srsns don't care for the present day
.rort. because they remember the days,
III 40 long ago at that, when, il they went
out on any Of the hills Of . morning and
admit get back here by breakfast time
18th deer or two, 1t was regarded a. very
hard luck.
aTbe trouble is thatstoo many Of us re-
nember the fall that Zenas Cowley, down
q the lower corner OF Potter county,
Filled eighty nine deer without going i've
miles away from his homo ct Sizer-
vile to get q single one Of 'em. And we
c.n,t forget the fall that Leroy Lyman
and his brother Harris bagged, in the Sim
Mentioning Portage woods, thirty-two
deer in ten days, six Of them being killed
nv Leroy while he was ON his way from
b;s home at Lourette to Heating Summit,
air miles, to start the hunt; which re-
minds us OF the day that same hunter
knocked over seven out Of drove Of eight
A. pritchard's camp ON Kettle creek, az
we'll as the day be killed four in less than
a minute over near Wilcox, in Elk
county.
.Then there are the scores and scores
Of other seasons We can't get over
calling up the memory OF, whom we hard
IL thought it worth while to put bit
OF lunch in our pockets when we went
out to get deer, knowing that 1t would
be an unusual thing II We didn't bag 4
buck or 9 doe, or perhaps both, and be
back home for an early supper, and when
to knock over three or four in Q days
hunt was not an uncommon feat for even
ordinary hunters.
"George Weimer died not long ago, and
. great many of rs can't think any other
way than that he just pinned away and
lost heart because Of the way the hunt
ing days had changed. He was one Of
the old-time hunters Of Potter county,
and leading citizen.
"He was on his way for q hunt one
time, going from Roulette to Cards HoI-
low, and as he was going down the ridge
into the hollow he saw couple OF deer
standing in the woods q long distance
off, He stopped to have look at them.
They moved slowly away. Then Weimer
saw other deer coming out Of the thick
woods and following along after those
two.
she became SO much interested in the
sight that he forgot he was out hunting,
and stood still and watched deer coming
out OF the woods, trailing across the
opening in the hollow and disappearing
in the woods on the other side of it, until
he counted ty-seven-bucks, does
and fawns-which brought them to the
tail end Of the procession. Whether any
more had preceded the two he saw first
Weimer never knew, but when he came
to himself and remembered what he was
out there for and hastened along to get
shot at some Of those deer, he was too
late. They had winded him, and all he
saw OF them after that was q big collec-
ton Of deer tails floating away over the
ridge mile away like q great white
sheet. 1t was mighty interesting Wei
mer used to say, referring to that remark
able collection Of deer, but trifle aggra-
ating, when I came to think it all over
"After . life made worth while by
everyday possibilities such as those, we
old-timers don't think it strange at all
that George Weimer took the passing OF
them SO much to heart that he just
couldn't bear It, and that after he had
been out securing such woods Is the axe
had left for three days and come home
without getting shot at Q deer, he hung
up his rife for good, and passed over to
the happy hunting grounds not . great
while afterward.
"But there are some deer left with US yet,
and l suppose 1t is just a. well that we
haven't as many IS we used to have,
Tor what would be the good of them now
that the law only permits fellow to
Knock over two in . season, and only
bucks at thatf 1t would only aggrsvate
us old-timers like tho mischief.
VI might as well say, though, that
amt one OF 'em that have hung up their
fines because the hunting isn't what it
used to be. I've been looking the ground
over little this fall, and don't mind
saying that II don't know where there's
aeouple Of five-prong bucks holding forth
up around my neighborhood in the Kettel
oteek country, then l can't read deer signs
when see 'em. And il don't have both
u EN- hanging up In my cabin before the
ueef season ID over, then my trigger I'm
ger has lost ito cunning and that eye Of
mine is on the blink"
proud father, in the presence Of Wis
nor' asked his four-year-old boy: "How
oid are your" ~ am four years old and