Page 6. THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA JUNE 0, 1909. DEER HUNTING THE BLACK-TAILED THEODORE ROOSEVELT Eopyrient, Mu, by G. P. Putnam's Sons. Published ynder srrangement with G. P, Putnam's Bons, New York and London.] HE black-tall's great curi- osity is one of the disad vantages der which it labors in the flerce strug gle for existence, com pared to the white-tail The latter, when star tled, does not often stop to look round; but the former will generally do so The first black-tall I ever killed was obtalned owing solely to this pe cullarity. 1 had been riding up along shy coulle, when a fine | the side of a brushy coulle, when a fine up the river be buck started out shead. Although shot, a running one, fa couple of hundred yard very crest of the spur up whic run, he stopped and turned round. Firing again from a rest, 4 some 80 thirty close, my yards first + when on the h he had partially the and on was a m 8 off iy Iss iring again bullet broke his hind leg far up sent In his body. Off he went three legs, and 1 after him as fast as the horse could gallop. He went over the spur and down into the the creek from branched up, in very My pony was n footed, but of OK He stopped overhan which side Instead foolishly ounted an after the first shot—a miss hind a boulder bhi thence over the meanwhile had slipped into the hs Y ' 1 got It ridge, the which 1 ble falle dry ground or two after Carcass vultures parts to feed Wher Ing ton app« do in old with un kably large horns, of cur ols nn ' tiful hap nore metri the The and turned the of of r disn began Orie it go therto unseen, The crest, the sy 8 wh rted fron gent slo 0 cover from beh ] 1 to approach hin We were at. but the antlers were so fine that | felt Justified the of their bearer After a little patient waiting, the walked out of valley, and the ridge on the other side, moving up wind; 1 raced after him, and crept up behind a thick growth of stunted ce dars, which had started up from among some boulders. The deer wan about a hundred yards off, down In the valley. Out of breath, and over confident, | fired hastily, overshooting him. The wind blew the smoke back away from the ridge, so that he saw nothing, while the echo prevented his placing the sound. He took n coupl of jumps nearer, when he stood still and was again overshot Again he took a few Jumps, and the third shot went below hig; and the fourth just behind him. This was too much, and way he went In despair | knelt down (1 had been firing offhand took a steady alm well-forward on his body, and fired, bringing hm down but with small eredit to the shot, for the bullet had gone Into his hip, para lyzing his bind-quarters. The antlers are the finest pair | ever got, and form a magnificent ornament for the hall; put the shooting Is hardly to be re with pleasure, Still, though inly very bad, It was not quite as disereditable as the mere target shot would think. I have seen many a erick marksman at the target do quite ere in no need of nu thes death buck the Over | plateau, and, | shot at him, as bad missing when out In the fleld. and that not once, but again and again, I have never made big bags myself, for 1 rarely hunt except for a fine head or when we need meat, and {if it can be avolded do not shoot at fawns or does: 80 the greatest number | have ever killed In a day was three, This was late one November, on an occasion when our larder was running low, My foreman and I, upon discovering this fact, determined to make a trip next day in the broken country, away from the river, : We br akfasted ho and then mounted our horses and rode The bright prairie at the full, and was sunk in the west till it hung lke a of white fire over the long row of jagged bluffs that across the river while its beams ght into 1: relief the upon our lef itself wa I Stiff, twiste brush shapes The cold was sting: willing thelr ground along the off to creek back rs before sunrise, yttom, moon was globe tin antastic let ou EQ reins the ng up a mi » of the river we turned follow the bed of a large dry At It was a great space up by the mer over on L020 e or ty y + 10utd hoofs but now but th $ thre ad t tom, Whe miles from of our fa tinge, the the valley reached the gan to sp » the creek be h out into the the valley creek, where th horses ( ie Manitou need lod no picketing The tops of the hills were growing rosy, but the sun was not yet abos the horizon when we started off, of her pou le too proved, artering not broadside to me. No fairer chance could ever fall to the lot of a hunter but, to my chagrin, she bound ed off at report as If disappearing inst My lon had now come up, and we ran uj a rise of ground, and crouched &« beside a great block of sandstone, In a position from which we overlooked the whole ravine or Ih After some minutes of quiet watchfulbess, heard a twig snap-—the alr was so stil) we could hear anything-some rods up the ravine, ut below us; and Im mediately afterward a buck stole out of the cedars Both of us fired at once, and with a convulsive spring he rolled over backward, one bullet hav. ing gone through his neck, and the other- probably mine-~having broken a hind leg. Immediately afterward, another buck broke from the edge of the cover, near the top of the though 1 took a hurried bounded over the crest, and was lost to sight. far sion dq qu back, ne intense the unhurt antly compat Wh How we We now determined to ge down into | the ravine and look for the doe, and as | there was a good deal of snew In the | bottom and under the trees, we knew we could soon tell If she were wound od. After a little search we found her track, and walking along It a few yards, came upon some drops and then a splash of blood. There belong bo need to hurry, we first dressed the dead buck--a fine, fat fellow, but with small misshapen horns—and then took up the trail of the wounded doe. Here however, | agaln committed an error, and pald too much heed to the trall and too little to the country rolind about; and while following it with my eyes down on the ground In a place where It was faint, upper | some distance ahead and to one side of me, and bounded off round a corner of the ravine. The bed where she had lain was not very bloody, but from the fact of her having stopped so soon, I was sure she was badly wounded. However, after she got out of the snow the ground was as hard as flint, and it was impossible to track her; the val ley took a turn, and branched into a tangle of coulles and ravines, 1 deemed it probable that she would not go up hill, but would run down the course of the main valley; but as it was 80 uncertain, we thought it would pay us best to look for a new deer, Our luck, however, seemed-—very de- servedly—to have ended. We tramped on, as swiftly as was compatible with quiet, for hour after hour; beating through the valleys against the wind, and crossing the brushy heads of the ravines, sometimes close together, and sometimes keeping about a hundred yards apart, according to the nature of the ground When we had searched all through the country round the head of the creek, Into which we had come down, walked over to the next, and went over It with equal care and pa tlence. The morning now well advanced, and we had to change our method of hunting. It was no longer likely should find the deer feeding or In the open, and Instead we xl for pla they might be following any tralls s00n we was that we ces wl bed 4 1 y thick look expe that k ung young ore we went | was who « at a all if breaks a! load about hl that reduces most h fra rode down the valley ses fon As soon T doe peared one every p odds were all trace of her; that he m chan e, against on finding but a hunter soon ust take advantage of e° however slight. This time were rewarded for our care; for af riding about a mile our attention attracted by a white patch In a cl of low briar On getting off and | it proved to be the white r which lay stretched taaliie stark and stiff. The ball had gone In too far aft and ho come out on the opposite side near her hip, ma und, but one which =i over a before ing of - w } ing a mo lowed her dying It ttle m } the et ae poe ked behind moge was due to carelessness aud bad J Neither of my shots had so far done me much credit; but at any rate I had learned where the error lay, and this Is going a long way toward correcting It 1 kept wishing that 1 could get an other chance to see If 1 had not prof. fled by my lessons; and before we reached home my wish was gratified We were loping down a grussy valley, dotted with clumps of brush, the wind blowing strong In our faces, and dead ening the noise made by the hoofs on the grass. As we passed by a plece of broken ground a yearling black tall! pure ly udgment | buck Jumped Into view and eantered | away. 1 was off Manitou's bask In an instant. 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