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two when a man by the name of Hill came to my house in great 

 haste. He had been cutting logs on a hill, and looking across onto 

 a hill opposite where he was working, saw the white deer, so came 

 to tell we what he had seen. I at, once, took 'my gun and started 

 after the deer. I went up the hill in the direction that Mr. Hill 

 had seen the deer until I was quite sure that I was well above the 

 deer, then cautiously worked my way down the side of that hill. 

 There being no snow on the ground and the deer being white, 1 J 

 soon discovered it lying in its bed. I cautiously crept up withiri 

 shooting distance and fired, killing the deer instantly. 



I will explain how it happened that these deer .disappeared so 

 suddenly at the time Judge Stebens accused me of killing the 

 white deer and the wager was made between the Judge and your 

 humble servant. A man by the name of Frank Williams had shot 

 the deer breaking a foreleg at the knee joint, and this caused the 

 deer to remain hidden away until it recovered from the wound. 

 The leg or joint was stiff when the deer was killed and the force 

 of the bullet was so spent that it lay against the skin after shat- 

 tering the knee joint and I stUl have the ball which I took from 

 the knee. I had the deer mounted and Mrs. Boyington took it as 

 she was collecting freaks and curios of this country. 



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