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Deer Hunting

Deer Hunting image
Parent Issue
Day
23
Month
January
Year
1891
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

David Hoover, of this place, came in trom the huls Saturday with a fine doe which he had the good fortune to run to water. When the snow is deep a deer rarsued by dogs wül invariably make 'or the water. Wading in where it is ;he deepest, the trembling animal will stand and wait for its canlne enemies. .t is cute enongh to know that it has the advantagO of the dogs while in the water. rae aognanng'snört regs must swim, and the deer by striking with its feet can defend itself much better than on land. The hunters, knowing this peculiarity, station themselves near the water, and the terrified deer, thinking only of the dogs, become an easy prey. Last week some hunters from Da Bois shot five deer in this way, and the fact that every one of them was hit between the eyes shows that the hunters were in easy range and had things very much their