CHAPTER XXXIV. 

 The White Deer. 



TDO not remember whether I have told the boys of the H-T-T 

 the story of the white deer, which I had the good luck to 

 get, and the picture of which was shown in one of the 

 sporting magazines a few years ago. The picture was sent 

 to the magazine by Mrs. Prudence Boyington, Roulett, Pa., who 

 was the owner of the deer at the time, and I believe a daughter 

 of Mrs. Boyington still has the deer. 



It was in the spring of 1878 or 1879 that a doe and a white 

 fawn were seen on the hill just south of Lymansville. The fawn 

 and its mother were seen almost daily in some of the fields near 

 the village, and often were seen in some one of the pastures with 

 the cows. The fawn would run and play about like a lamb. 



It was plain to be seen from week to week that the fawn was 

 rapidly growing, and as the open season for hunting of deer drew 

 near it was generally understood that the white fawn and its 

 mother should not be killed. When the winter came on, the fawn 

 and its mother were all at once missing. The general supposition 

 was that they had been killed, but when spring came the doe and 

 the white fawn (now a yearling deer) again appeared on its old 

 haunts of the year before. They had merely gone back into the 

 more dense woods to winter. 



Along in June it was noticed that there were three deer in- 

 stead of two. Another fawn had appeared on the scene, this time 

 an ordinary spotted fawn. They were again daily seen during 

 the summer the same as they were the year before. Now it had 

 been strongly urged by the people all about the country that these 

 deer should not be killed, and there was none that was more 

 strongly in favor of this than I was. The deer were regularly 

 seen again all summer and up to the last days of October, when 



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