HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Goderich Signal-Star, 1957-12-05, Page 18.PAE. SIX
OUT ON A LIMB
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WITH BOLL1d1LEY
Well, I've been deer hunting in
the north woods. It's not so bad,
rally. Sort of fixe running against
a stone wall with your head. It
feels so good when you stop. And
there's a certain modest pride in
arriving home in one piece and
looking only ten or twelve years
!der than when you left.
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Then there's the comradeship, of
course. If you're lonely, go hunt-
ing with a gang. There's something
intimate about a hunting camp
that welds a firm friendship among
its members. It's difficult to be
lonely in a hunt camp, where
quarters are so Close you find the
fellow next to you already has one
Seg in your long underwear 1.7lien
you're trying to pull it on.
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Anybody can be a deer hunter.
X11 that's required is the lungs of
a racehorse, the stamina of a bull
elephant, the -legs of an Olympic
marathoner, lots of heavy clothes,
and a vivid imagination. The last-
named is the most important of all.
just as it is to the more successful
fishermen, golfers and other true
sportsmen.
When you encounter a small
fawn at a range of 15 feet, and he
gives you a cool once-over before
ambling into the bust~} while you
811 the air around him with hot
lead, forget it. By the time you
get back to camp, he's a huge buck,
Ire was 300 yards away and going
like the wind, but your danged gun
lammed, and you were so mad you
almost wrapped it around a, tree.
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You could even be blind and go
deer hunting. One of our party
spent about $0 hours in the bush
and didn't see a deer, though guns
were slamming, hounds tonguing,
and hunters hallooing all about
him. My theory was that he'd been
bitten by a deer as a child, and
had a complex that wouldn't let
him believe those creatures flash-
ing past were really deer. He
claimed his bullets were getting
worn out, putting them in the rifle
every morning, and taking them all
out again at night.
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I did a little better than that.
After about Dight days and eight
hundred miles of tramping around
the bush, looking at the pretty
Christmas trees and wondering
what they'd fetch in the city, 0
rounded a corner and came face
to face with the enemy, a huge
buck (about 50 pounds, dressed
weight).
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We both leaped backward in dis-
may, but he had the advantage of
me, with his four feet. Both of
mine went out from under me, my
musket went up and I went down.
It was downright humiliating,
I crawling around in the snow, try-•
ing to find my rifle, with the deer
helping me look. By the time I'd
found it, cleaned the snow out of
the barrel and brushed myself off
so he'd stop taking me for Santa
i Claus, he'd got bored and wand-
ered off.
After- that, I confined myself to
hunting for a nice, quiet thicket
where I could eat my lunch out of
the wind. Those lunches were the
highlight of the day. After a
weary tramp, you'd find yourself
a secluded spot and light a cheery
fire. Just as you were about to
set-to at your ham and 'jam sand-
wich and tin of sardines, about
eight hunters would materialize,
none of them with any lunch.
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They'd stand around the fire
watching; every swallow like so
many sad -eyed hounds, until the
stuff was choking you. I got so
that I'd set a huge spruce on fire,
so they could see ia..for• mulles, then
run like bla4es for a half -mile,
crouch behind a stone, and gulp
my grub.
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What 0 Booked forward to most
were the evenings. After a garg-
antuan mean that wound make an
Weer specialist rub his hands with
glee, it was wonnderfu0 to Oie back
en your bunk, pleasantly exhaust-
ed, and breathe in the good, clean,
hunting snnolls: ofwood smoke,
feet, armpits, pipe smoke and nap-
tha gas from the lamp. Sort of
real and viten, 0y'kpnow.
You acquire a ctalnpletely new
vocabulary when yoUT go deer hunt-
ing. First, you drop all your g's
and slam a bad word between
every pair of good words. Then,
it seems, deer hunting is never
carried on in the bush. It takes
place in and around such things.
as slashes, sloughs, burns, greens
and ridges.
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Thus,. -when you are telling about
whore you saw that big buck, it
was definitely not just in the bush.
It was on the edge of that green,
just below the big ridge, back of
the slash, between those two little
sloughs, on the other side of the
burn. As there are about 600
of each of these articles in any
square mile of hunting ground,
you are perfectly safe. Nobody
can go back, find the little fawn
tracks and your empty shells
twelve feet from them, and call
you a liar.
After a few days in the bush,
all deer hunters are cast in the
same mold. They eat like pigs,
look like hairy apes, and smell like
a gathering of venerable goats.
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These are just a few random and
hurried impressions, taken,�,, from
the voluminous notes I chide in
preparation for the volume 1 am
writing, entitled Buck or Buddy?,
or How To Tell Friend From Doe.
While you're waiting for its public-
ation, if you see a 'fellow being
dragged off at the end of a rope,
kicking and screaming, about this
time next year, that'll be me
going deer hunting again.
THE GQDERICH SIGNAL STAR
WHEAT KING -World wheat champion Andrew Davidson,
left, 58 -year-old farmer from Essex England, was awarded
the Canadian National Railways Challenge Trophy at the
Royal Agricultural Winter Fair i}i Toronto. He is presented
with a $100 cheque and engraved silver tray by CNR Deputy
Vice -President J. A. Argo, assisted by Miss SuperContinental,
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Donna Warminger, of Yorkton, Saskatchewan. t is the first
time Britain has won the world wheat crown
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THIII DAY, OKKADER. 5th, 1657
• � •• Stanley Mcilwain
Heads C. P And T
Acclamations In Colborne
For 4th Successive Year
(Continued from page 1)
warding but that there were times
when it was aggravating, too. He
f e 1 t that different ratepayers
shoatld take their turn in serving
on the school board.
Mr. Elmer Hunter said he would
be pleased to serve on the school
board ,for another year. °
Mr. Terence Hunter felt the
township was fortunate to have
two such capable men as the clerk
and'
cipal affalsessorairsto handle its muni-
.
"The school board has a heck
of a job but they are trying to
do the best they can," said Mr.
Hunter. He said the school, board
faced difficulties in past years, too,
but the amounts of money inyolved
today were considerably larger.
"We can't seem to get together
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Mr. Hunter. "Why is this?" he
asked. "I wish we could get to-
gether on the school problems, for
example. Have the board find, out
what is best for all before making
any [final decisions on what is to
be done.' '
A former reeve, Stan Snyder,
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attention to the need for more care
being given to an old cemetery.
In announcing his intention of
serving on the school board, Mr.
George Robertson said, ."Yot} can't
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transporting pupils to school and
this is a general problem since I
know my father speaks of it in
relation to his work on the Gode-
rich Distract Collegiate Institute
Board."
Others who spoke were Orville
Ribey, Itay Fisher and Orville
Blake.
It was about 5.30 p.m., when the
meeting adjourned.
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Artificial insemination with an-
imals was practiced by the Arabs
in the 14th century, according to
the Encyclopedia Britannica.
The inaugural meeting of the
Cancer, Polio and T. . committee
of the tOddfellow and ,'tebekah
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"Mr. Gordon 'Bannister was chair-
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follows: chairman, Stanley Mc-
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Fuller; secretary, Mrs. Frank
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Various committees were ap-
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Bowra, Mrs. A. Johnston and Mrs.
F. Bowra. The representative to
the local Cancer Society is Mrs.
Pearl Straughan.
Mr. Amos Osbaldeston is in
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other sick -room equipment owned
by the Committee which is in con-
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