Show SAVED BY CHANGE I FRO FROM ANGRY BUG BUCK WOUNDED ANIMAL CHARGES UNARMED UN UN- ARMED MAN WHO HAS A CLOSE CALL ESCAPE filA MATTER OF LUCK Colonel Parker Who Has Had Many Adventures in Woods Tells How He Was Saved From Death in Fight with Deer Harrisburg Pa r Pa I have had a goon man many novel and exciting adventures in the woods said Colonel Parker of Clarion county but the one one I had with a legged broken-legged buck once was the liveliest of all I 1 was on my way home from town In a low low bodied bodied old- old fashioned sleigh and when within half halfa a mile mUe of my house bouse I saw standing at atthe atthe atthe the side of the road and not more than ten feet from it In inan in-an an open space in the woods one of the finest buck deer I had ever seen As I 1 leaped from the sleigh the buck charged me On the opposite side of or the narrow road was a stump six or seven feet high tigh I 1 cleared the road at one jump and dodged behind that stump PeerIng Peering Peering Peer Peer- ing around it I saw the buck coming and saw also that his right hind leg was broken and was dragging help help- lessly Then the bucks buck's dogged fierceness fierceness fierce fierce- ness was explained There Thero Is no fiercer animal than a wounded buckWell buckWell buckWell buck Well this wounded buck started right In to give me a lively chase round and round that stump For minutes we circled around the stump the bucl bucks buck's s 's activity and vitality belying his bis appearance I had bad no weapon not even a pocketknife but bu there was an ax in my sleigh h V 2 2 A 11 di The Bucks Buck's Antlers Grazed My Bac locomotive I 1 turned to Jump the tree but I didn't get there Tl Ti Til buck struck me just behind my bit hir suspender buttons and lifted me so sol cleared a snowdrift that extend along that side of the road I land landon on top of the snowbank The cru crul was stiff enough to hold me an anc went sliding on ov over r it striking ground ten feet on the other side of The blow and the landing knocked breath out of me and the fall h hi hime me considerably but the meld doubtless saved my life me The rhe buck in his eagerness to tolt it lt me where I lay mounted the sn bank The crust broke beneath sharp and al all alJ three of his sot SOl legs instantly became as useless him as was his broken leg He sainto sn sa sal Into the snow to his belly and though he lie showed his fury by thres Ing his great antlers on the snow ai at by loud fierce snorts of anger he ws w helpless I got up an and limped hornas horn as fast as I could dould I met my son o a ol the way the horse reaching horn without me having naturally my family family- He went back bacle with m mand mand ml and got his bis gun and went to the where I had so luckily escaped trot frO the buck and put the tho poor out gut of its misery |