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Show ground. Well , Grandad figured the deer was \tell pierqed, and a ll that he had to do n01.1 was clean his prize . So, he s.lid off of his perch and wa lked over to the deer to cut its throat. But ~vhile Grandad was unbuckling his lr•. n ife, t he de er evidently took a change of heart and decided that life was too desirable to give up so easily. The next thing Grandad knew, he was going dol'tn the mounta i nside at a terrific spe.ed soundly hooked to the horns of a three-point buck. Now Grandad got mad , because he never did like to ~urry nor be pushed around; s o_, he decided to sho\v the dee r who was bos s . The next tree the unhappy pair came to , Grandad grabbed. The shock of stopping se su~ temporarily stunned the deer and gave Grandad a chance t o s t raddle the unee=~a-beast, ....... ......__....,.-.1'!1"" ~~ith this change in arrangement, the tvJO lttere off again, down the side of t he movntain, ~trees, and right p~p where my dad and his two brothers ~ j we r e eating dinner. They remarked t hat they thought Grandad was gett.ing a l i t t le . t eo old for such stunts, but they li'lere glad he vias still ambi tious. / ;' Grandad fina l ly succeeded in cutting t he deer' s throat with his hunting knife, but only after a s truggl e that l asted l"lell into the day . Grandad was right proud of' .his accomplishment, and he still claims t hat the only res.son he was on that dee r ' s back was that he didn 1 t · like the idea of carrying such a heavy buck clea r to camp; so , he decided to ride him i n before killing him. Now, a few people may not believe this story, but I 8\'-lear that I 've heard my grandad tel l i t on every deer hunting trip that I can remember going on. And , it could be ! |
