. Rod and gun. e found. We knew it was not from anyfailure to preserve the deer, for verystrict watch had been kept on the re-serve, but from other causes. Inquiries soonshowed that thedeer to escapefrom the wolveshad gone nearthe settlementswith the resultthat they hadbeen butcheredthere on a largescale. Onefarmer showedme the place, afew acres fromhis home, wherehe had slaugh-tered six in onemorning, fo u rmature deer andtwo fawns. Isaw the skins o^these six deer,and along with them thirty-eight were hanging up in the stables andbarns and it could be seen that the deerkilled by th
. Rod and gun. e found. We knew it was not from anyfailure to preserve the deer, for verystrict watch had been kept on the re-serve, but from other causes. Inquiries soonshowed that thedeer to escapefrom the wolveshad gone nearthe settlementswith the resultthat they hadbeen butcheredthere on a largescale. Onefarmer showedme the place, afew acres fromhis home, wherehe had slaugh-tered six in onemorning, fo u rmature deer andtwo fawns. Isaw the skins o^these six deer,and along with them thirty-eight were hanging up in the stables andbarns and it could be seen that the deerkilled by this man ranged from babies tolarge bucks. While he had the huntinginstinct highly developed, several of hisneighbors were as bad, and it was re-ported to me that one of them had killedsixty-nine deer during that summer andfall. Many settlers had deer skins ontheir fences in addition to those in theirstables and barns. Many of these far-mers, who all appear to have one or tworifles, seemed to follow the custom of. LA FLECHE CARRYING THE BEAR BYOF A TUMP LINE. taking a gun with them each morningand evening when they went for theircows, on the chance of seeing a deerwith their cattle or elsewhere. The reserve in question is thirty milesfrom the nearest railway station and thecamp is ten miles from the house of thelast settler. On the way in I noticedthat the deer were scarce. I walked thelast eight miles of rough road with twopair of hounds and thought it curiousthat they did not take the deer scentfrom the air, nor from tracks crossingour road as they had always done pre-viously when ina deer was halfpast three be-fore the campwas teams werefngaged takingin our baggageand provisions,and two of thesewere so longdelayed en routethat they did notarrive till lateat night. Onarrival the workof preparing thec a mp was atonce started andwhile most of uswere unpackingthe goods and getting ■ things in shape,some of the boys went fishing and re-turned with a string
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