October, 1919 
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After what seemed a long time, he 
fired. I saw a deer jump from a small 
thicket, and start away to the right, to 
drop when he fired the second shot. See- 
ing him walking rapidly straight ahead, 
I cut across, and soon saw another deer 
lying in the snow, clear across on the 
opposite slope. This was a small white- 
tail, and had been hit back of the 
shoulder, at about 200 yards. The other 
deer was my crippled buck. 
We decided to devote the following day 
to the business of getting the deer five 
of which were still hanging in the woods, 
frozen hard as rocks — into camp, intend- 
ing to start home the day after. 
> We arose rather late that morning, 
and were preparing our regular camp 
breakfast, of which we had begun to be 
a little wearied, having had it without 
variation for nearly a month, when my 
brother straightened up from the fire 
where he was cooking, and looked fixedly 
in the direction of the wagon. After a 
moment, he strode over to it, and, climb- 
ing upon a front wheel, drew a round 
white object from a corner of the box. 
It was a half-gallon jug of Vermont 
maple syrup he had put on board the 
morning we started, and forgotten until 
that minute. 
Never before or since have flapjacks 
seemed so delicious as the ones we had 
that morning. We still had a couple of 
pounds of butter, and two of us turned 
them hot from the frying-pans, while the 
third ate. When the man at the table — 
top of our big grub-box — failed to keep 
the deck clear, it was his turn at one 
of the pans. 
THE OLD DRUM- 
MAJOR OF MT. RAT 
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surveyed the shot-off tree stub, wonder- 
ing how this is so often done in snap- 
shooting in the brush, while Bess went 
back up against the old stone wall and 
lay down in the sun and for the rest 
of the day would not even come within 
reach of my hand. 
Another open season gone — winter 
went by and summer came. Bess raisec 
a family of wonderful babies and had 
no time to spend with me afield — only an 
occasional trip to and from Old Forge 
Hole in the river where we went for a 
swim. 
But as the days grew shorter, the nip- 
ping night air browned the green leaves, 
shriveled the wild grape and painted the 
sumac and the birch, out came the gun 
again. For days Bess and I enjoyed the 
sport of kings; never have I seen grouse 
so plentiful — red letter days — a wonder- 
ful dog — what more could one wish for? 
And so, with only a few more days 
left before the gun went back to the rack 
and Bess to the old sofa for the winter, 
we tramped the hill, only one thought in 
mind — that old white winged drummer. 
I almost began to believe him a shape, 
protected by some magic not known by 
mortal man or that he was possessed 
of some power that allowed him to keep 
just beyond the range of harm and baffle 
us with daring flights. 
Look Through 
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ing. Just a 
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that gives the 
entire load 
proper direc- 
tion at every 
shot. 
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did it all with very 
little human effort. 
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Be sure to apply 3-ir-One 
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