Nov. 19, 1910.] 
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THE DEER-DODGER MEETS HARD 
LUCK. 
The farmers up that way always get most of 
the deer. Many hunters from the towns tramp 
the woods for days and never catch as much as 
a glimpse of the quarry. Almost every farmer 
is personally acquainted with at least one or 
two deer, and usually he doesn’t have to go be¬ 
yond his own apple orchard to get a shot at 
one. 
The pretty creatures, says the Evening Sun, 
are very tame before the guns begin to pop in 
October, and sometimes they even enter a 
farmer’s barnyard and mingle on friendly terms 
with his cattle. Jealous “city fellers” have ac¬ 
cused certain farmers of keeping a deer under 
lock and key and leading it out early in the 
morning of the first day of the open season for 
execution. Certain it is that many deer are 
shot by moonlight before the season is half an 
hour old. 
Hop Wheeler was not exactly a city chap, 
although he lived on the outskirts of Rutland. 
Hop was a carpenter by trade, and he had built 
himself a house on Pine Hill, just back of the 
Vermont House of Correction. The woods 
came down almost to his back door until three 
years ago, when most of the timber on the hill 
was cut away. 
Hop was a man of quiet habits. He never 
had his name in the Rutland papers except once, 
the time he was struck by lightning while shing¬ 
ling the roof of a house. The shock the electric 
bolt gave him was as nothing compared with 
the shock he got last fall during the deer-hunt- 
ing season. 
Hop had a bran-new high-power rifle that 
would bore a hole through a good-sized maple 
tree. He practiced shooting with it at a target 
until he was sure that he could hit a deer at 
300 yards. All that was necessary then was to 
find the deer. 
The season opened on a Monday, as it always 
does, and Hop was up two hours before dawn, 
polishing his gun and stowing away doughnuts 
and hard-boiled eggs in a knapsack. At 5 
o’clock he hit the trail for Mendon, a moun¬ 
tain town to the east of Rutland, where deer 
are usually plentiful. Other hunters were in the 
woods before him, and occasionally he heard 
the crack of a rifle not very far away. Before 
the day was over he passed several hunting 
camps and saw. the carcasses of freshly killed 
deer hanging by the doors. The successful 
hunters were usually celebrating their good 
luck, and Hop was often invited to wet his 
whistle before he moved along. 
But not a living deer did Plop see. Once he 
heard a scurrying of hoofs in the dry leaves, 
but when he ran ahead and peered through the 
bushes that blocked his path, there was not an 
animal in sight. He could hear the rapid dimi¬ 
nuendo of the pattering hoof-beats far down a 
ravine. 
He slept in the barn of an abandoned farm¬ 
house that night, and at daylight he was up 
and stalking through the woods again. But the 
second day brought no better luck than the first. 
It was one of those gorgeous days of early 
Indian summer, when the declining sun sheds 
his last warm rays on the hillsides of the North, 
which Jack Frost on his southward march has 
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