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Show ANGRY BUCK PUTS FARMER ON SHELF WINSTED, Conn., March 50. With three timid but admiring does looking on, two buck deer fought on Patrick Danehy's place at Coldbrook. Danehy, 65 years old, a well-known farmer, butted but-ted into the gallant combat, although he must have known that Connecticut deer are the best protected in the world by" State game laws. The result was that one infuriated buck would have killed Danehy had not his Scotch collie dog saved him. Danehy's legs are covered with abrasions abra-sions and bruises; his right hand and wrist are painfully injured. He says he heard strange noises back of his barn, and going there saw two great bucks charging each other, while the does, three queens of beauty, stood at the edge pf the lists. At sight of Danehy, the bucks paused for a moment. Then one rushed at Danehy and felled him with a blow from his fore hoofs. "The buck struck me again and again, first with his horns, then with his fore hoofs. Every time I tried to get up, the buck knocked me down again. As a last hope, I called my collie. col-lie. It came running and bit the buck's hind legs until the deer turned on him and I had a chance to escape." |