CHAPTER VII 

 HUNTERS WHO HAVE BUCKFEVERED 



GUNS 



THAT HAVE SPASMS 



AND HUNTERS THAT HAVE 



THE BUCK FEVER 



One more story and it will conclude the series 

 of incidents in deer hunting. But all of this is a 

 matter of history to the man who has tramped 

 the woods for years. It is only repeating old 

 stories to tell of the deer that ran too fast for you 

 to shoot. I once saw a tenderfoot hunter jump 

 up a deer at close range and he stood and 

 watched the deer until it was out of sight before 

 he realized he had a gun in his hands. And so 

 it is with others; the duck that always flew be- 

 hind the hunter as he sat on a musk rat house 

 in a slough and could not turn around, or of the 



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