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within four feet of me, so that he almost ran over me ; 

 but he appeared so suddenly and leaped so rapidly into 

 the thick brush that I was unable to unlimber in sea- 

 son, scarcely a second passing between his advent and 

 disappearance. This deer had apparently been lying 

 down when surprised. 



One of our party had a curious experience two or 

 three years ago in this locality. He shot at a buck a 

 considerable distance away, observed it to fall, and 

 when approaching discovered that in falling the buck 

 had imbedded its horns in the ground and at the same 

 time had thrust the front part of its head beneath 

 a shelving rock, from which it was impossible to with- 

 draw it, although the buck was not fatally wounded, 

 having been struck in the shoulder, where the bullet 

 remained, without passing through or breaking the 

 bones. The struggles of the deer to disentangle him- 

 self were immense, but without avail, and his throat 

 was cut after sonie difficulty. The deer's head was so 

 firmly fastened beneath the rock, and so held by its 

 horns, that after its death it was so difficult to remove 

 that it could only be accomplished by digging out 

 the horns. That the deer could never have liberated 

 itself was quite apparent. 



Several years ago, in January, while coming up the 

 lake on the ice to camp, we observed something 

 about a mile ahead, which we thought might be a 

 broken bough, as they often blow out on the ice when 

 it is clear. As we came nearer we observed it had 

 some movement, and upon a near approach we dis- 

 cerned it to be a large buck, stranded by his inability 

 to stand on the slippery ice. He made desperate 

 efforts to get on his feet as we came nearer, but the 



