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are killed. In aSToYcmber the fan begins. Then the doe 

 comes out to the buck, and the spring fawn generally keeps 

 with its mother, so that you may get sight of the three at 

 once, and a good steady marksman sometimes gets all 

 three of them on the spot. To do this, shoot the doe first ; 

 the buck and the fawn will both stay around. 'Next shoot 

 the buck and then the fawn, so as to have the three. I 

 want to tell you never to go and see what you have shot, 

 without first loading your gun. The deer may not be 

 very badly wounded, and will jump up and run away un- 

 less you have your gun ready to stop him. 



This reminds me of a couple of hunters, John Weiss and 

 George Meyers. They started out on a deer hunt with 

 about ten inches of loose tracking snow. John soon dis- 

 covered a fine large buck, and at once took aim and un- 

 hitched the contents of the old rifle. Down goes the 

 buck, and away goes John to cut his throat. When he 

 gets to him, down goes his gun into the snow. George 

 hears the report of the gun and comes up about this time. 

 John had laid hold of the buck with the intention of let- 

 ting blood, but up come the hind legs and wipe John off 

 and throw his knife out of his hand some distance. John 

 makes a spring to mount him again, and succeeds in strad- 

 dling his back just as he begins to rise. George had now 

 come within hailing distance, and cried out in broken Eng- 

 lish (for they were Dutchmen) " Hang on, Chon ! Hang on, 

 Chon ! " and away went buck, " Chon " and all Well 

 now, John found himself in quite a fix, going through the. 



