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hour afterward, the same deer being put again into the 

 lake, the Vice-President got another chance, and this 

 time shot him n the head. 



Matthews came back to camp at two. His place it 

 was, as has been said, to wait in the woods on a * run- 

 way ' or path which the deer frequent, intending to shoot 

 them on the run as they flew by in front of the hounds, 

 instead of watching in a boat to shoot when the 

 dogs chased them into the water. Scout and Fly had 

 been put out in the morning on the Ox Tongue portage 

 and within a few hundred yards started a doe. Wilbur 

 hurried down to hi post, and twenty minutes later 

 another big doe, brought in by Dan and Glen, ran past 

 him " like a whirlwind," as he describes it, upon a cross 

 runwa3% intersecting the other, the dogs not two minutes 

 behind her. As the creature came tov/ard him, he 

 startled her by a cry, expecting that she would stop, 

 when, just as he was aiming, she leaped straight up into 

 the air and the bullet went under her. Then, like a 

 railway engine with the throttle suddenly opened, she 

 gave a leap which Wilbur declares measured 25 feet, 

 clearing the trunks of two trees in its course, and went 

 off with her flag up. " Yes," said Alvin, who, watching 

 near by, had seen the leap, " an' if she hadn't thought 

 that a good place to light on, she'd a kep' in the air for 

 15 foot more." Another shot, at forty yards, brought 

 the doe to her knees, but it was not fatal ; she was up 

 again and off^, and lost to the hunters. Tracks of a big 

 buck were seen, near where two run-ways approach 

 each other, within a quarter of a mile, but hearing no 

 further encouragement and having listened and read 

 and ruminated upon things in general, Wilbur started 

 about noon for Camp. - v 



