THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA. Thursday, June 24, 1909, “HUNTING \ DEER ON HORSEBACK “=” THEODORE ROOSEVELT Fl Putnam's Sons ment with G k and London [Copyright, 1885, by G P. Published un rrar Putnam's Sons, LL horseback ~— New Yor of hunting and ng on horseback hounds—1t kinds hun with 1 to bring out the best ax done 1d 1d manliest qualities In the | i men who follow them, should be encouraged In every way. Long after the refleman, as well as the game he hunts, shall have vanished from the 1 cattle country will afford fin coursing hares; and both wolves deer could be followed and killed with packs of properly-trained hounds, and and they It is on the gre the Missouri th in the end re ment as a national pas But at present it is a in the cattle country; an man who loves sport 1 till hunting—and by still-hunting is mean pretty muc a single almost alwal deer and kills this su plenty and knowledge of knowledge of The hunt for deer sign; gets to have ¢ the kind of pla likely to be, yet they are eithe that no man understanding ings; for man) sulted to then fted, while In swhere it would one to cause may ter of a given peclally, Is sure t while rendering the otl mel) swild and shy, and where deer have be- come used to being pursued in only one way, It is often an excellent plan to try some entirely different method. A certain knowledge of how to track deer Is very useful. To become a really skillful tracker is most difficult; and there are some kinds of ground, where, for instance, it is very hard and dry, or frozen solid, on which almost any man will be at fault. But any one with a little practice can learn to do a cer- taln amount of tracking. On snow, of eourse, it is very easy; but on the other hand it avoid being seen by the ground is white. After deer ha frightened once or twice, or have even merely been disturbed by man, they get the hab cessfu suspect is also peculiarly diffict deer when ve been a watch ba snow has fall- it of keeping 0 needs to footprints Nit g E had broken the backs of both. in the grass, and can readlly; and in any is at all damp Hi iT: H easy, a not to be worth while Collowlog up. Indeed, at all times, even the snow, tracks are chlefly of use show the probable locality in which Geer may be found; and the still ter instead of laboriously walking along a trall will do far better ww mere ly follow it until, from its freshness and direction, he feels confident that the deer Is In some particular space of ground, and then hunt through it, guld- ing himself by his knowledge of the deer’s habits and by the character of the land. Tracks are of most use in showing whether deer are plenty or scarce, whether they have been In the place recently or not. Generally, signs of deer are infinitely more plentiful than the animals themselves—although in regions where tracking is especlally jumped wlith- een seen at all, iting on foot is on to get deer, ¢8 where from 1d the sport can be 1 jorseback, re pleasant nm | y is non The t I ever which, lement of id deer, } f r little experience teaches one that deer will be found in thickets of such short and sparse growth that It seems as if they could hide nothing: and, what is that they often skulk rot in such thickets without 1 And a bla being d animal, HKing more, wiil ind 3 sCovered ys for gs wok itself, and round in rather a sh the looked faced way, worse for the pony up to the top by vigorous pu and then for the which at fi strongly objected to making another trial, but, after much conxing and a good deal of abuse, took a start and went up without trouble. For some time after reaching the top of the bluffs we rode along without seeing anything. When it was possi least the We got 1 apparently ot in NE down other | ble, we kept one on each side of a | | ereck, avoiding the tops of the ridges, because while on them a horseman can going with particular caution when ever we went round a spur or came up over a crest. The country stretched away like an endless, billowy sea of dull-brown soll and barren sage-brush, the valleys making long parallel fur rows, and every thing having a look running, but, as game seemed scarce and cartridges were plenty, 1 leaped off the horse, and, kneeling, fired. The bullet went low, striking In line at the feet of the hindmost. I was very high next time, making a wild shot above and ahead of them, which had the ef: fect of turning them, and they went off round a shoulder of a bluff, being By this time down In the valley. Hav. ing plenty of time I elevated the sights (a thing I hardly ever do) to four hun. dred yards and walted for appearance, Meanwhile they had evi dently gotten over their fright, for pretty soon one walked out from the other side of the bluff, and came to a stands! broadside toward me, He was far off for me to see his horus, As I was raising the rifle and ped out and began to walk towards the first. 1 thought I might as well have as much of a target as possible to shoot at, and walted for the second buck to come out farther, which he did im- mediately and stood still just along side of the first. I almed above his shoulders and pulled the trigger. went the two bucks! And when 1 rushed down where they lay 1 found I had pulled a little to one side, and the bullet had broke: he backs of both, While ing them 1 the distance, and thirty-or hundred yards. and very in shr late in ill, LOO ther ten- Over steep stream: saw the « fy r as twitched ng re presented t 1 ever hot as to the sheer mid-day edge walls wet dred feet ws gorge, O88 tht down several hun ng over the brink eof the ch a buck, lying out on a ledge so narrow as to barely hold him, right on the face of the cliff wall opposite, some distance below, and about seventy yards diagonally across from me. He lay with his legs half stretched out, and his head turned so as to give me an exact centershot at his forehead; the bullet going in be tween his eyes, so that his legs hardly so much as twitched when he received it. It was ism | saw tollsome and nimost dan | gerous work climbing out to where he | | lay; 1 have never known any other | be seen at a very long distance, and | individual, even of this bold and ad venturous species of deer, to take Its noonday siesta in un place so barren of all cover and so difficult of access even to the most sure-footed climber. This buck was as fat as a prise sheep, and heavier than any other I have ever killed; while his antlers alse were, with two exceptions, the best 1 ever got. NEXT WEEK- “Hunt- ing the Peccary” Threa men sat down at a restaurant table. “Bring me a very rare steak” sald one. “1 want a rare steak, too” sald the second man, “but I want it vory rare. Just have the sides seared a little, and let the blood run out of it." Then the third man sald, “Bring me a rare steak from an animal which bas not been killed, but just erippled.” thelr re- | BEERS MADE IN MAINE. | Each Farmer is His Own Brewer of Home Remedies. 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