New Britain herald., 1918-11-14
"EX'RY FALL IN TEXAS" "
When "Thc Long Horns Hitch On Their ''Shootin' IrOnS'' and Go
 A-Deering, Boy HoWdy!
(San Antonio Light)

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 Friday, November 1. was the gala season in Texas mesquite circles, when the deer season opened and nimrods and others betook them selves out to the old COW pasture and laid in wait for the unsuspecting and trusting deer.
 The opening of the deer season has become a festive occasion more from sacred memories and customs than from the slaughter of deer, although now and then somebody does slay a deer and brings it home amidst the plaudits. of the throng. However, that is merely incidental and nowise necessary to a successful opening of the deer season.
 The opening of the deer season in Texas consists in laying in q large quantity of ammunition and a con- siderable supply of expectations. The trusty old rifle is polished until it shines like burnished gold, as the poets say. It is "iled' and swabbed within and without, it's sights are tested and found in good form and then the charge is rammed home and we are ready for the massacre to be- gin
 Arising before the first blush of dawn paints the eastern heavens with a more or less crimson gleam, the deer hunter departs from the busy marts of trade, usually in Ford or some other make of gasoline convey ance although in former times, he ambed forth on the back of flea bitten cayuse with all his worldly
 hunting togs rolled in a blanket and tied behind his saddle. But this bit of sacred custom has been relaxed and is gradually disappearing because
 the autom obilc gets over the ground
 faster and in addition, it is so handy
 for bringing home the Game--tf
 deer is met with.
 So forth into the new born day. the
 happy hunter takes his way (Tonny-
 son couldn't have said it any better)
 and arriving at his favorite pasture,
 he boldly disregardS the sign painted
 in bold letters above the gate, Post
 ed" and enters the forbidden pre-
 cincts. That is all, That officially opens the deer season. From there on. we lose all track of our deer hnnter and to a considerable extent, all interest in him. too. The old world moves along much as before. Base men, born without reverence for the l sacred ceremony of opening the deer | season, proceed upon their way as l though nothing of moment were talk ing place. The opening of the deer 1 season, falling upon November l, 1 brings forth the usual array of bill 1 collectors and similar pests. Within | the cities and villages of the land, 1 the stores open as of yore, the news papers put forth their regular editions 1 and life proceeds much as ever 1 In fact. there are few changes or 1 disturbances except when now and l then some irate farmer dashes mad l the demise of a faVorite COW which 1 made the fatal mistake of having g. | coat of texture and appearance too l closely resembling a siX-pronG buck. 1 Occasionally, too, some frantic ranch | CT. arrives post haste, via automobile l generally, to demand instant justice 1 and mburSement for the shooting 1 by long range fireS of his favorite fil l ly while peacefully grazing at dawn l of day upon some pleasant hillside. ] But aside from that there is noth- l in. to indicate that the deer season | has been opened, except an occasion ! al long range bullet Whistling above l the city sky scrapers or the report of l a rifle faintly borne upon the breeze l within sound of some outlying sub l urb.
 1 And thus for olXty days. days l fraught with momentous possibilities, l and not infrequently casualties, the l deer hunter stalks abroad in the land
 and the mesquite thicket is about as