Eureka Reporter | 1903-01-09 | Page 6 | Story of "Tom" Ochiltree

STORY OF TOM OCHILTREE gallant colonel had science of shooting down fine col tom ochiltree was once in w kited to spend a week eek at the deer hunting lodge in the maine woods ot of one of hie life friends and tramped the wilds for a week without bringing down anything on the last day ot of his visit he was approaching the lodge in company with his entertainer just as dusk and seeing something in the thicket fired at it it turned out to be a calf but the honorable tom missed it as gallantly as if it hail had been a buck of many antlers what a this shouted his host you pretend to be a hunter and can t hit a calf well tom replied I 1 gasn wasn t juet just sure what it was so I 1 shot to hit it it 11 it was a deer and miss it if it wa was a calf