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Show "OLD MAN" LIBBY'8 DEER. Remarkable Story of Killing Tod by' Blind Guide. "Old Man" Llbby Is ono of tho best known guldo camp keepers In tho state of Maine, and for years has been totally blind. Four years ago ho carried car-ried Into Rnngor tho enrcass of n deer, nnd hnd It tnken to tho office of Fish nnd Came Commissioner Carpenter. Car-penter. Llbby expressed tho wish that tho venison bo given to tho Bangor Ban-gor hospital. Carpenter wnntcd to know who killed the deer, nnd was much sur-when sur-when Llbby claimed to havo been tho destroyer. "Why. Llbby," ho asked, "how did you, n blind man, manugo to kill this deer?" "Wal, you sco." drawled Llbby, "I was Btnndlng outstdo my tent yesterday yester-day morning, nx In hand, Just going to chop a lectio wood, when I felt this dumed critter rushing onto mo. flNLf thought 'twas a b'nr, so I hauled oJJ and soaked him." Tho commissioner always has a grin on tap when telling this story, for ho hns doubts ns to who killed tho deer. |