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DRIVING A MULE DEER TO CAMP. 



We were camped in a cave of lava rock, 

 where the Boise river has worn its slow 

 way through the rocky flood which usurped 

 its ancient channel. A great mass, loosened 

 by frost, had gone crashing down the can- 

 yon to plunge into the roaring rapids. We 

 lay and listened to the grinding of ice and 

 snow, past our rude hut, and planned a 

 hunt for the morrow. Our quarters were 

 uncomfortable, even dangerous ; but the 

 new year would soon end our vigil at Rat- 

 tlesnake mine. We felt that a day of rec- 

 reation was due us. 



Daylight found us toiling up the snowy 

 heights. By noon the sharp peaks and 

 ridges of the broken mountain lay all about 

 us. Somewhere in this tangled mass of 

 rock, aspen and gully a bunch of deer, as 

 evidenced by sign, were feeding. We 

 worked our way around the great central 

 dome and were approaching Winchester 

 mountain when Joe saw 7 mule deer in a 

 deep ravine. They were as quick of sight as 

 we. For one brief moment they tarried, but 

 it was enough for Joe. Twenty years' 

 training make eye, muscle and rifle act as 

 •ne. Joe's earbine spoke, and the herd dis- 

 appeared. 



A minute later they came in view, run- 



ning single file over a ridge 600 yards away. 

 Joe and I blazed away, and a buck showed 

 signs of having been hit. We struck his 

 bloody trail. As carrying him to camp 

 over the nearly perpendicular mountain 

 was impossible, we decided to try to drive 

 him campward. By dint of much maneu- 

 vering on our part, the buck was kept on a 

 fairly direct line until only a mile from 

 camp. Then he seemed to give up entirely. 

 We stood within a rod of him and debated 

 our best course. 



In the canyon below, 2 miners were eat- 

 ing supper in the early twilight outside 

 their tent. The firelight played in fantastic 

 patterns over them, and over the black 

 mouth of their tunnel in the deeper gloom. 

 The whole scene was uncanny. We could 

 plainly hear their conversation, but no 

 sound we made reached them. 



It was decided that I should finish the 

 buck with my knife, but as I went up to 

 him he regained his feet and ran. We did 

 not come up with him again until the pre- 

 cipitous wall of lava above camp barred his 

 farther progress. There we dispatched 

 him. More than one pot boiled merrily 

 New Year's day on the mountain because 

 of his undeing. 



F. R. Fouch, Parma, Idaho. 



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