Forest and stream . n of the streams. Davtd C. Beaman. Ottumwa, Iowa, May, 1886. A CARBERRY DEER HUNT. THE readers of your most interesting paper are regaledweekly with stirring accounts of bear and deer hunts,in which celebrated hunters have, by wonderful feats ofwoodcraft and daring, redoubled their claims on Nimrodianfame, and it strikes me that, it will afford a contrast and per-haps amuse by its novelty, if T, a novice, recount my ownexperience in the hunting of my first deer. This to me most interfsinsr event to®k place near Car-berry, Manitoba, in the fall of 84. Carberry is a vidage on
Forest and stream . n of the streams. Davtd C. Beaman. Ottumwa, Iowa, May, 1886. A CARBERRY DEER HUNT. THE readers of your most interesting paper are regaledweekly with stirring accounts of bear and deer hunts,in which celebrated hunters have, by wonderful feats ofwoodcraft and daring, redoubled their claims on Nimrodianfame, and it strikes me that, it will afford a contrast and per-haps amuse by its novelty, if T, a novice, recount my ownexperience in the hunting of my first deer. This to me most interfsinsr event to®k place near Car-berry, Manitoba, in the fall of 84. Carberry is a vidage onthe south edge of the Big Plain. East, west and south ofit is a vast region of sandhills. In the sandhills to the southis a poplar bush about sixteen miles long, within this a sprucebush, and in the middle of the last is a tamarac bog, thesource of the Pine River. The deer have nearly all been ex-terminated in this reaion; they are so scarce that a white manhardly thinks of going out for a deer hunt, yet an old elk. jumping deeb. has occasionally been seen, and the Indians sometimes bringa few jumping deer (Cariacus macrotis) into the village, whileon rare occasions they kill a moose within twenty miles ofthe settlement. The prospect of learning something of deer hunting in thislocality was not particularly bright, still. T had often seendeer tracks in muddy places, when on ornithological rambles,so there was no doubt of the presence of game; therefore,after the first snowffdl, I resolved that since there are somedeer about here, and since, after having found a track, it isonly a question of time and perseverance before one comesup with the track maker, I do hereby register a vow that 1will not cease to hunt in those hills until 1 bring out a deer,unless the shooting season close before I succeed Accord-ingly, on the 27th day of October I set out on foot andtraveled fifteen miles without seeing anything. The nextday I went further and fared no better. On the third day 1found t
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