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Show HAD ONLY ONE HUNT, Ccl. Joe McCann Explains Mow He Had Enough Deer Hunting on Juit One Trip. ' I went deer hunting once said Col Jon McCinn ff the Iron Montalr route and the hunt had such a small lot of encouragement In It that I never risked another one It was In Potter county, Pa, In the days not so long ago when deer were thicker In the hemlock belt than sheep were A party of four of u went In camp along Kettle creek The first day out after deer I got lost and when after floundering about In th wood all day I at last found my way back to camp just about dark I was o tired und stiff that I wasn t in shape next morning to go out on the i h ise that da) The other fellows had killed a blK deer and It hung up outside our shun ty Thty went out to get another one nnd 1 etu)ed In tamp to rest up Along In the afternoon I felt better and tl-rught I might as well pass away th. time by shooting at a mark 1 stuck a plec of paper on a ti e quite a nett distance away in the woods came back and stood In the shanty dooor ami biased away The report was followed . b) what 1 thought weic twenty different dif-ferent clap of thunder and then I heard some one shout ' Hi therel hat In dlngnatlon )ou doln ' . I looked In the direction nf the olce and saw u big double-fisted ba. kwoode-man kwoode-man rise nut of the brush He came I toward me shaking his list and lowing away llrst class I saw that he was made He iame up to me and keeping his fist on thi moie )el ed Do )ou know wlint 1 ee got a gool notion to do' I e a good nt tlon to I smah the life outer ou Who )ou shootln at? ' It seeme that the nultnted bushwhacker bush-whacker had been hunllng pheaints He had marked down n lot nf cm nnd was creeping nlnng to get a rh"t when my gun i nt otr I missel my innrk hut m bullet whizzed I) his ear he rild o (lise thnl 'he wlnl of the llll bt mule It fl p rl nwii) went the nliensantK sim.d I) the ronort The excited cltltsen refuseo o act ept n y explanation and upnbS) and I maJi up my mind I was In f a rg! t or a footrace Just then the nntlie saw the der hanging by the loin " Tneiel1 said he Thit erlson 11 lest about make up for thi gar e )ou skeert awny from me wl'h voir lurn keerless whangln - iher take that deer that eun n iurn ir ele ou glee me 110 to make the lemagi ih,1 Of course It wool n ei In f jr m to let the venison go an I the gun was out or tl question 8 I han le 1 oi 1 1 a J10 not lo apieusi the mjm 1 t m lock belter, and he walked uw u h"t telling me with expnadee ex ltlee to nave a little rumjtlcn ntxt time when I was hanalu mound whn othu folks was huntln This episode of om ad 1 I to th pleasure of my deei hm t I v is ex , tremely happy I w nt It tve ubln ni I , la) down I fell asle p ind w e i iuk- ened bv a noise Ill-Ins n m) elb vv i I lookel toward tb d oi an 1 wis Junt In time to see n huge brute thnt I knew, I was a bear cooll) vvalkli i awa with oir deer Thla was a d sneiat case i and somethlnir had lo I e done I i sitamhled for my gun Py the time I , got It and reached the il wr the bear had got a pood via) off with thi deer I Ill-til, and I think I m ist have hit the bear somew hen f'r he slopped laid down the deer and turne 1 an 1 . started back toward m I hnd ro los. I In my gun nn 1 I Jumi 1 bm k Into the shantv and slimme I tl 1 or to W hi n I got m) cun loadel n 1 p k(vl out of I the door the beir was novvh u to l. seen I ran out nn 1 . t a glltnose or , him and the dcr cro n e the crtek I Hred again but the b ir vv nt on Into the woods with the v nleon and that was the Inst t saw of in The bo:s brougl t In nnother deer thnt night but when I t Id em that the other one vvns gone and the ehe ring Incidents of the elu tho said th y Kue-sed they'd quit nnd we vv null go home Which we did n-xt elnj and I haven t hnd much hankering for n deer hunt Blnco" |
