Show HANK W VAS A WRONG h. h What o I He Shot fi at for a Buck Deer Proved to Be Otherwise the Otherwise tha Secret le lees Leaked ek e d Out Through I Wes es Woodruff Hank Had ad to Pay up for Being Being Be Be- ing Mistaken stakes Hank Dewberry who is one of our laziest and good citizens but outside of this hasn't so very many other faults had a very disagreeable disagreeable disagreeable dis dis- dis- dis agreeable experience last Tuesday which will rankle in Hanks Hank's memory for it to as long he has any memory rankle in Tuesday morning bright and early Hank got up about 3 a. a m. m which is is something for him being as Hank commonly lays abed in m the mornings until his folks have half a aday's aday's aday's days day's work done Hank h he hp made up his mind he was going hunting deer-hunting so he put a cold snack to eat into his pocket picked up his trusty old muzzle loader loaded with buckshot and snuck out of B Bingville ng in the dim gray dawn bound for the old Parkman place at atthe atthe atthe the foot of Mountain where they is a old abandoned farm and apple orchard which is a great place lace forde for de deers rs to come and pick up the apples which have felled en tn the ground Well Nell Hank got to the orchard a little a after ter daybreak and set et down behind behind behind be be- hind a stone fence where he could command a good view view of the the- apple trees There Hank set and set and set until he got dot ot so fired all tired settin in one position so st still ll and quiet that he I feared he would get settlers settler's cramp Maybe a hour passed by maybe two hours when Hank heerd some twigs snap in in the edge of the woods woodson on side of the orchard so he cocked his gun and poked it the top of the stone fence an and waited in breathless interest to get sight of I what he would be a big buck deer I By and by Hank he se seen n the bushes I move mo and then he got ot sight of what I he was the flank of a deer through the leaves lea and being as he I this mi might ht be the only he would get Hank took aim and I pulled the trigger There fol- fol was a report j j by the most awful you ever cr heard and the next instant a II heifer emerged from rom the or orchard orchard orchard or- or chard a and acid d run acro st toward Hank her tail tai and swinging her head and lettin out blood curdling I bawls With great presence of mind Hank then realized that he lie had shot a 1 cow instead of a deer so being as he II hadn't shot her fatal and she would recover reco in time Hank he I the less he said about that i her to an anybody body the better belter so he therefore therefore there there- there there-I L fore lore away and returned to Bin Bing Bingville I Iville 1 I ville vine about 10 a a. a m m. m saying aing he hadn t seen hide nor hair of a deer which was true You would wonder how howit it got out that Hank had shot Lafe Lae Parkman's Parkman s heifer being as Hank would never of told it but there was another witness to the shooting in the person of Ves Woodruff our expert hunter and trapper V cs he happened to be laying behind the fence enc J on the other side ide of the orchard unbeknownst unbeknownst to Hank and md seen the whole per performance and as soon as V Wes s got back to Bingville of course he told it all over town to Lafe Parkman he hunted up Hank and told him that unless Hank paid him 10 to which extent he considered considered considered consid consid- ered he had damaged his heifer er he Lafe would let the law take its course and carry the case to the Court if necessary Hank he lie it would be better to compromise so he paid Lafe 10 but he is put out at atVes Ves res Woodruff for telling on him Hank says he if he had Just held off a a. a little longer Ves would of shot the heifer for a deer being as Hank says Wes Ves dont don't know the difference betwixt a buck deer and an heifer I |