Show SAVED BY CHANCE I FROM ANGRY BUCK I WOUNDED ANIMAL CHARGES UNARMED UNARMED UN UN- ARMED MAN WHO HAS A AI 1 I CLOSE CALL MATTER OF LUCK Colonel Parker Who Has Had Many Adventures in Woods Tells How He W Was JS Saved From Death in in Fight with Deer Harrisburg 1 Pa I a. I have had a goon many novel and exciting adventures in the woods said Colonel Parker of Clarion county but the one 1 I had with a legged broken buck once was the liveliest of all I was on my way home bome from town in a low-bodied low old- old fashioned sleigh and when within half halfa a mile of my house I J saw standing at atthe atthe atthe the s side de of the road and not more than ten feet from It in an open space In the woods one of the finest buck deer I had ever seen As I I leaped from the sleigh the buck ck charged meOn meOn meOn me On the opposite side of the narrow road was a stump six or seven feet high I cleared the road at one jump and dodged behin behind that stump PeerIng PeerIng Peer Peer- Ing around it I 1 saw the buck coming and saw also that his right hind leg was broken and was dragging helplessly help help- lessly Then the bucks buck's dogged fierceness fierceness fierceness fierce fierce- ness was explained There Is no noer fiercer er er animal than a wounded buckWell buckWell buck Well Well this wounded buck started right In to give me mo a lively chase round and round that stump For fly minutes we circled around the stump tump the bucl bucks buck's s 's activity and vitality belying his bis appearance I 1 had no weapon not even a pocketknife but there was an ax in my rny sleigh It was plain to me that I 1 couldn't put in a great deal more time speedIng speedIng speeding speed- speed Ing around that stump My only I I chance was to make a break from the stump to the nearest tree and so on from Cram tree to tree until I could get to the sleigh and secure my my ax With that I had no doubt that I could end the battle quickly I succeeded in dashing from frolD one tree to another until I had only to get getto getto getto to the tree to which my horse was tied and that was only the width of the roadway my sleigh being on the side of at the road I had first seen the buck onI onI onI on I had felt that my uncomfortable and perilous experience would soon be beat beat I at an end but I hadn't taken the feelings feelIngs feelings feel feel- ings and disposition of my horse Into account I made the dash across the road and reached the tree all right but as the furious buck buch sprang into the road the horse gave a jump the halter strap snapped and away went horse sleigh ax and allI allI all I had no time to think of that though for I was now in full sight of the buck and he was coming like a aThe af f 1 lM r ir J ay r 1 l The Bucks Buck's Antlers Grazed My Back ack loco locomotive maUve 1 I turned to Jump behind the tree but I didn't get there The buck struck me just behind my hind suspender buttons and lifted lifted me so 1 cleared a snowdrift th that t extended along that side of the road I landed on cn top of the snowbank The crust was stiff enough to hold me and 1 I went sliding on over it striking the gro ground nd ten feet Ceet on the other side of it The rhe blow and the landing knocked the breath out of me and the fall hurt me considerably but the the Incident do doubtless saved my life lite The buck in his eagerness to get it me where I lay mounted the snowbank snow snow- bank The crust broke beneath his sharp hap hoofs and all three thre of his sound legs became as useless to him as was his broken leg He sank Into the snow to his belly and although although al al- although though he be showed sho ns fury by threshing threshIng threshing thresh thresh- ing his great antlers on n the snow and by loud fierce snorts of or anger he was helpless I got up and limped homo home as fast as I could I met my son on the way the horse reaching home borne without me having naturally alarmed my family He went back with me and got his gun and went to the spot where I had so luckily escaped from the buck bucl and put the poor creature c jut gut t of its misery |