284 THEsOREGON' SPORTSMAN 
FARMER BATTLES WITH MAD DEER 
OR weeks during the recent open season hunters scoured the woods 
F and hills near Creswell, Ore., in search of a monster buck deer, 
sighted by chance observers. To Robert Norton, however, fell the 
honor of killing the animal, and he did it with an ax. 
Norton was cutting brush on his farm in the locality where the deer 
had been seen, when he heard dogs running, and, surmising that they 
were chasing a deer, he climbed a fence and crossed a small creek, when 
suddenly he met the deer face to face. The buck had been bayed by 
the dogs. Upon seeing the man the deer charged him, and all Norton 
had to defend himself with was an ax. He struck at the animal and cut off 
one prong of its horns. The deer came at him again, but by this time 
the dogs were worrying the animal again, and it turned to fight the 
dogs. Norton then sank the ax in one of the deer’s thighs and erippled 
it in such a manner that it could not longer fight, and then struck it in 
the head with the ax and killed it. The legs of his overalls were 
cut to shreds by the deer, and had it not been for the dogs the animal 
would probably have either seriously injured or killed him. 
IN CAMP AT SUNSET 
By OruEy E. GRAY, in Sports Afield. 
The sun sinks to rest in the blood-tinged west; 
A summer’s day is dying. 
The west wind stirs the sombre firs, 
And sets their branches sighing. 
The lone wolf howls to the quavering owls, 
And they are in turn replying. 
Upon the hill the whip-poor-will 
His plaintive note is crying. 
The waters flow and murmur low 
Upon their pebbly shallows; 
Above the yew, in the fading blue, 
Skim many feeding swallows. 
The last light gleams across the streams, 
And up the dreary bottom— 
Wild gleams and free that bring to me 
Heartache for days forgotten. 
ELEPHANT HAMBURGER TOUGH BUT 
FILLING 
Under the above heading the New York World quotes Miss Marie 
Brown, an American singer, who recently arrived on a Norwegian liner 
She told of eating zoo meat in Leipzig. The lions and tigers were eaten 
first. Then the elephants were killed for market. ‘‘I ate some of the 
elephant meat myself,’’ Miss Brown said. ‘‘It was not any too palat- 
able, but it was filling. It was so tough it had to be ground up to eat. 
The ‘monkeys and birds were about the only things left in the zoo.’ 
