A CHaj« in<i a. Close Call. 
It was the first day of the deer hunting: hr 
A light snow to the depth of about 
a inch hart fallen *he 
i2tr before. The '.right 
.'femnher sun while it 
iH ant seem to *emper 
x been air much, was 
yiw’y meiring the snow 
war <m the slopes. We 
•o at a party of four, 
imped for the first 
ase in this section or 
x Serthem Wisconsin 
-Meruess- hart been ex- 
facog. looking tip for 
ie deers the prtspeers 
tr same Shortly after 
ami we had come to¬ 
sher on the shore of 
. -Qiz.I ake and they 
ter a nondescript char- 
. ner who said he was 
nacaing' on a small 
omesear. ahout three 
ales west of our tana 
fe was carrying a 
cnhle nn. one barrel, 
s le said being loaded 
tdi buckshot and "he 
her wtrh hue shot He 
ad wuh inn a very 
taaiT anongrei deg. 
.biter mr:- t 7TS ac¬ 
cruing tn the rustem 
f ms cfa-r snrf nn dins' 
e taa scour xechterL to* 
sum tn onr camo. he 
ad Tray rf yonse 
diet; want to get a 
esr tn-iay f -an shew 
ruse the place and 
2 Ht We nr-mnry 
Unwed! -hsr we did. "‘I 
ar star" -ax e^ery --me 
* he same place, tot 
on W they'e re*: 
tor Tie and I 
nth mi wtrh my 
Be."’ he added. It 
s ttiu agreed ~ha~ we 
omit ail mke as imcrkty 
5 Wc,e tn the place, 
star two -m ? eg sts" 
id w* did. 
i was a car - twer 
md berween be 
when the pine 
aned wee : =nTnrT 
si with jr- 
a r th es. also n im er-us -maT swamps 
tsfr or trice rr cedar ami natty little spring 
^ -i characteristic rf the section; where sev- 
*- h he prtrrcfnal ri - ers tf the Scare head. 
-- tomes surer sett rf as tr rake smites 
on different ridges, while he was to make a de¬ 
tour w-i-h the fitrle dog and try to drive the 
game out to ns. Either he was too fast or 
we were too slow; at all events the same was 
art 
Hi 
A WELL. r_ULN~ED REST. 
Fnrn a imatasiraoh a-v F F Sorabenrer. 
there three deer, but they passed through, as 
c-uid :e sea by he fresh tracks, before either 
tf as had reached the high ground where we 
could hare seen them. This was a disappoint¬ 
ment tn aZ hands and parttctihar'.y to the home- 
5:£a '-- r - w ho was down on his luck anyway and 
who had evidently hoped we might aid in break¬ 
ing the spelL 
It was then nearly 2 o’clock and the country 
by the direct route to 
our camp was unknown 
to any of us. The 
homesteader only knew 
how to work out by 
the route we came. 
VV e knew our camp lay 
north of us and dis¬ 
tant at least three miles 
and that somewhere be¬ 
tween us and our camp 
a little narrow-gauge 
logging road ran. By 
hitting that railroad we 
could easily find our 
camp. We decided to 
try it and started, 
spreading out and 
traveling between thirty 
and forty rods apart 
Hie had not gone far 
before I saw two deer 
jump and run straight 
away from me. They 
were over forty rods 
off. but the country was 
pretty open, and I let 
go one shot from my 
.45-90 at the largest 
Following along. I soon 
struck the tracks. I 
had no hopes nor even 
an idea that I had 
scored a hit but be¬ 
came interested in the 
big jumps one of the 
deer was taking to the 
extent of pacing them 
off. I found that one 
deer was clearing near¬ 
ly thirty feet at every 
inmp. Wondering how 
long this would be kept 
up. and as the tracks 
led in the general di¬ 
rection I wanted to go, 
I followed on. still pac¬ 
ing. Suddenly I no¬ 
ticed just a little spray 
of blood on the snow. 
Even then . I did not 
pay much attention to 
it. thinking it might 
come from a scratch 
received in a fight or 
from an injury from a 
snag. A little further 
on. however, were large drops and splashes of 
blood. I then whistled to the others and they 
came in. 
After tracking we agreed that the deer had 
a broken hind leg from a shot fairly high up. 
