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RECREATION. 



AN ADIRONDACK FREAK. 



In the Game Fields department of June 

 Recreation I notice the article from A. 

 C. Ludington describing a curious growth 

 of a buck's horn. I herewith send you a 

 photo, which I took 4 years ago, of a 

 buck's head. The deer, which was a large 

 one, was shot in the Southern part of St. 

 Lawrence county, in the Adirondacks, in 

 the fall of 1896, by Mr. Charles Ferris, 

 an Adirondack guide, of Fine, N. Y. The 

 head was also set up by him and he 

 prizes it highly as a curiosity. The deer 

 had a heavy pair of antlers which, as may 

 be seen, were very irregular, the tip of 

 the right one being turned in and pointed 

 across the face, and some of the prongs 

 of both sides being much twisted out of 

 shape. The striking feature is a third 

 antler, entirely separate from the others, 

 being in front of the right antler, a little 

 to one side of the center of the head and 

 back of the right eye. That antler, which 

 stands straight up from the head, is about 

 8 inches in length, y 2 or Ya of an inch in 

 thickness, and about 1V2 inches in width. 

 Mr. Ferris did not know what kind of a 

 pair of antlers he was getting till he had 

 killed the deer, and he was then delighted 

 to find he had such a freak. 



Geo. S. Raymond, Ogdensburg, N. Y. 



THE FALLING HABIT. 



Counsel for the plaintiff, being anxious 

 to discredit a hostile witness's evidence, 

 remarked that the occurrence described by 

 the witness bordered on the miraculous. 



"It must have been a miracle — eh?" he 

 said, turning to the man. 



The witness, shaking his head, said he 

 did not know what a miracle was. 



"Oh, come," said the counsel. "Suppose 

 you were looking out of a window on 

 the 7th story of a building and were to fall 

 out and not be injured, what would you 

 call that?" 



"An accident," was the stolid reply. 



"Yes, yes ; but what else would you call 

 it? Well, suppose you did the same thing 

 the next day. Suppose you looked out of 

 the 7th story window and fell out again, 

 and again found yourself uninjured. Now 

 what would you call that?" 



"A coincidence," said the witness. 



"Oh, come now !" the lawyer began 

 again. "I want you to understand what a 

 miracle is, and I'm sure you do. Now, 

 just suppose that on the third day you 

 were hooking out of the same window and 

 fell out and struck your head on the pave- 



ment 7 stories below and were not in the 

 least injured, what would you call it?" 



"Three times?" said the witness, rous- 

 ing a little from his apathy. "Wel\ I'd 

 call that a habit." 



Counsel gave it up. — Exchange, 



WHAT CAUSED IT ? 



Enclosed find a 

 picture of a deer 

 head, killed by J. 

 Wenzel, of this place, 

 in 1900. The head 

 has 15 points, all of 

 which come direct 

 from the head ex- 

 cept the forked one. 

 The base of the horn 

 is hollow in center. 

 I should like to hear, 

 through Recreation, 

 the cause of this de- 

 formity. 



Ed. Hardman, 

 Grand Rapids, Mich. 



