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day for deer for sure. I hadn't gone more'n a 

 mile from home when I started up a big buck and 

 a couple of does." 



^'And you got the whole bunch at one shot," I 

 broke in. 



*'Now, you hold on. I'm tellin' this," he re- 

 sponded. ''I've heard fellows tell of gettin' two 

 deer at one shot, but I always set them down as a 

 little careless o' the truth. I got the whole three 

 but it took three shots. And I didn't stop with 

 three for before sundown, over near the big black 

 ash swamp I got two more." 



''Five bullets, five deer, eh? Some record, 

 surely," I gasped out. 



NEVER MISSED A SHOT 



"Yes, that's it. Bullets and powder cost big 

 money in them days, so we couldn't afford to waste 

 them. Tea wasn't done up in lead them times, in 

 fact, we didn't often have tea. But we had sad- 

 dles o' venison and venison steaks in plenty and 

 we didn't work the lever o' a Winchester and 

 shower the bullets all over the landscape the way 

 these Muskoka hunters do. One bullet and in the 

 right place, that was the way us early deer hunters 

 did it. 



SHOT A DEEB OVEB HIS SHOULDER 



"I want to tell you about the last deer I got 

 that day. I was walkin' along a log in a black 



