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the latter once a Texas paradise 

 for deer and deer hunting. This 

 deer when found, must have been 

 dead two or three days, a victim 

 of some hunter's bullet when 

 found on the prairie by the Mex- 

 ican, near a large ravine. The 

 Mexican told me it must have 

 been a large fellow, and that near- 

 ly all flesh had been devoured by 

 coyotes. He removed the head. 



mountainous Helotes regions 

 northwest of San Antonio where 

 the described dead deer specimen 

 had been found.^ 



For various reasons, deer in 

 general are becoming scarcer ev- 

 ery year it seems in some of the 

 old hunting grounds around the 

 western hills; whilst in other re- 

 gions of Texas, especially soiith- 

 west of San Antonio, they are re- 



RoMANTic Landscape Scenery Around the Helotes Country, Northwest of San Antonio, Where the 

 Deer Heads, Illustrated Above, Were Found 



and the original photo herein 

 shows it must have been a splen- 

 did specimen of deer once 

 gracefully roaming with its heard 

 among the evergreen hills and 

 vales of the romantic Helotes 

 countryman original photograph 

 of which is depicted herein and 

 prepared by the writer during a 

 previous outing in these same 



ported very numerous and at 

 times become quite a depradatory 

 nuisance, as they harm the crops 

 and fields at night time, and 

 there is no fear of their extinc- 

 tion in the wide and wild ranges 

 over the prsiirie plains and oak 

 forests, where abundant protec- 

 tion exists among the remote 

 evergreen hills and forests and 



