Show killed a deer with a pocketknife in the winter of 1833 the forests 01 pennsylvania in adjoining comities comi ties were overrun with wild beasts 1 was then teaching school in a log school house having low windows situated on a branch of oil creek tareo miles above titus ville in what as then known as the ridgeway district when one day I 1 beard the deep toned baying of hounds ap the mountain side all the forenoon and as 1 was about to dismiss school for noon recess I 1 noticed a large deer looking in a one of the windows with tongue pro smoking sides heaving and evi dently very tired school was out fo noon at once and on a doub lequick started after the deer keeping about tw rods behind him until we had mn som twenty five rods to the creek which w frozen over and had a light fall of sno on the ice As the deer struck the ice with a bouno he broke in and fell and before he conic get up or extricate himself from his muddy and icy environment was oy top of him having a hard tassel to hold him until the schoolboys came up when one of them as directed took cypen knife from my pocket opened it and gave it to me and with it 1 very opened the veins in the deers neck and had no further trouble in holding him down having bled him to death with a small penknife the hounds cams up at the finish tendering assistance but were kept at bay by the boys while 1 the deer kept the hide distributed the venison among the pupils and on the nest morning had delicious venison for my breakfast cor courier |