The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1915-10-21
Calamity Jane and Ricketty Ann
Seth Cutters Wild Pets Scent Trouble
When Maine hunting Season Opens.
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Especial Dispatch to the Boston Globe.
| SEABURY, Me-, Oct. 10. Seth But
tiers, carrier on R. f. D. No. 4, the
wildcat route" out through North
Seabury and Poverty Gore, says that he
| is thoroughly convinced that the wild
! critters know when the game season
begins ana they are no longer protected
| ty law. Seth eXpounded his theories to
| the boys in the post office the other
| night.
"You needn't tell me that wild crit
| tiers are so fool sh as some folks try to
make 'em out. Now all the fall there
| amt been trip that ain seen d deer,
or some pa 'tridges, or something or
other worth shooting, but since the law
went off | amt seen as much as a chick
adee from Seabury to the blue school
house and back. Seems kind O. lone
/ some, too, not to see the critters.
| Nov there was Mutt and Jeff,
| couple O. buck deer that have ranged
| along the Mink Meadow road all the sea-
i son. Mutt was long-legged, scraWny
buck and jeff was little Teller as fat as
a butter ball. | used to drop off cou-
pie O. leaves o cabbage on the bridge
! every once in awhile and they would
hardly wait for me to git by fore they
| would come out and grab 'em. Amt
seen hair nor hide O. them lately, tho
left the cabbage all right, but some
other crtter got it.
Calamity Jane Missing
''Then there was Calamity Jane, |
called her, a big doe that used to come
out and foller me in the Coolidge woods
| just b'yend Tuttletown. Never knew
| just what she wanted, but she always
follered along, looking kind O wistful-
like. Perhaps it was dull times out
there. Amt seen her, tho. lately.
Then there was Ricketty Ann, that
had her stamping ground around the old
'bandoned farm on the Pilgrim Hill road.
| She was that playful that she would run
down to the road and whisk her tail and
run back ag'iD, then do it some more,
just like a dog, only she didn't make
any noise about it. She seemed to take
the old orchard, and one rainy day see
her lookin out of the winder of the old
barn. She amt round there now.
but the tamest wild critter | ever
see round here was Little Nell-I kind
O. got in the habit O. namin' 'em, you
see. She was plump little doe that |
used to see most every day out by the
min'ral spring near Burberry Hill. One
day left the team to 90 in to the spring
for jug O. water-it IS little ways in
from the road, you know-and when |
come back, Little Nell was rubin noses
with my OF boss Napoleon. or Nap he
didn't know what to make of it but
didn't seem to object much. Another
time Little Nell nosed in behind my cart
and yanked bag O. salt out into the
road and split part of it. She was al
most noosance, but where's Little Nell
now? dunno.
"Same way with the pa'tridges. In
dozen places along the route they used
to burrow in the road and had to al
most haul up to not run over 'en. Amt
seen feather lately. Needn't tell me
that they amt got some sort of language
or that the wild critters don't tell each
other that it is time to take to the deep
woods when the guns begin to pop.
Bull Moose Immune.
''Well, I've got one standby, tho he
amt very neighborly yet, an that's
round the head O. Simpsons Pond. He
, crosses the road and takes a turn up
over the hill once in while just ahead
or behind me and don't seem to be in nc
hurry or scared of anything. He's
mighty independent actin, as if he knew
that nobody dared to shoot at him, and
he is good for four years all right, for
that's the law now.
''Of course moose don't know nothin
about the game laws, but I'd be willing
to bet somethin' that if it was open time
on moose you wouldn't find one tween
here and New Brunswick. Seems
mighty funny tho that all the wild crit
tiers seem to know when they are safe
and when they amt
"Why didn't you go after some O.
them deer, Seth, fore they got scared
OFF," put in the postmaster.
Didn't I-paid Ran Lancaster 81 to
make trip for me and went over about
the whole route, next day after the sea-
son opened, and all see to shoot was
two porcupines, rabbit and crow.
Broug ht the crow home and got the
laugh cause the folks discovered he
hadn't but one eye-said that was takin'
an unsportsmanlike advantage"