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Show H WHISKERS IN SEASON H srTf """ B RE8ULT OF SUCCESSFUL, 8KIN- H GRAFTING CERATIONf r H Amateur Surgeon Did His Best -and H Was In No Way to .Blame,' But Na- 1 ture Proved Herself Triumphant H Over All. H Perhaps tlio most curious caso ot H nurgcry that was over performed In M tho region of tlio Adlronducks la that M which' was executed upon "William Mc- H Coy, a woodsman. H McCoy has just returnod from tho H Spruco Lako Mountain lumber camp H after nn absenco of two years. Ho M brings with him tho strange story M end its proof. H A year ago last May ho was work- M ing with John Duffoy gotting out some H long poles to repair a chuto which is M used to slldo logs down tho mountain H side. Duffoy went to cut a limb by H an upward swing whon tho axo sllp- H pod from his hands and went flying M through tho air. It struck McCoy, H and Its keen edge shaved off tho H greater part of his right check. Ho H bled profusely whllo they hastened H to tho camp a half mile away. Thero B was no doctor within thlrty-flvo miles, H and worst of nil, tho streams wero H raging torrents that could not possibly H ha fordod. Communication with tho H outsldo world was cut off and thero H was not likely to bo any moans of get- H ting to a vlllago for somo days to H co mo. But as luck would liavo it, B thero happened to bo a nurse in camp HH from Utica named William Henry, H who was out roughing It for his health. M Henry took McCoy in hand. After M having partially stopped tho flow of B blood ho went out to tho stablo, took BBl ft llttlo fawn that somo of tho boys BBb bad captured a couplo of days before, phavod tho hair for about nlno squara Inches off tho animal's side, and then ho carried it to tho camp. Ho took a fountain pen and marked out on tho ehavod surfaco of tho fawn tho Bhapo of tho wound on McCoy's face. Whllo somo of tho woodsmen held tho crca- ture, Honry cut tho skin around whero he had marked, peeled it off, and ap- BBb plied it immediately to tho face of Mc- Coy. Having fitted it in place firm- BHl ly, ho rubbed over a thick coat of bal- Bam gum and over that ho placed tight bandages. Tho man stopped BHl bleeding at onco. A week afterward Henry took off Bh tho bandago. Tho graft was found BBl, to bo a perfect success. Tho wound Bb'' , was ,ueallng rapidly, and it appeared HJ that tho scar 'would show but slight- J ly. In four weeks McCoy was healed Hi so well that ho was ablo to go to H. '"work. Soon after, however, ho no- fl itlcod whon ho drew his hand across fl Ws check that hair was growing on X tho grafted skin. Ho was rather 1 tpleasod at that, for ho thought that M lio might wear a beard and thus en- M tlroly hldo tho scar. But in a few M days mora tho hair had grown so m thickly that its color and naturo wero B plainly visible. It was tho hair of M itho fawn growing, and, moreover, it M was spotted like that of a fawn. Ho M Old not daro to shave for fear of 1 breaking open tho skin, and allowed m lit to grow until the fall of tho year, M ;Thon tho spots disappeared and tho "bluo"'coat of a full grown deer took m 'Its placo. H When spring camo around ho saw H (that tho hair of his cheek was falling B jout and fine red hair was growing. M JAt last tho bluo or winter coat was H lontlroly gono, and tho red summer m .coat took Its place. In fact, ho and jtho other woodsmen, to their morrl- 1 ment, saw that tho grafted skin fl varied and changed precisely as does 1 tho coat of a doer. |