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There are two specimens of the rare Schomburgk's deer, one a world record. The home of this deer is still a mystery. It is supposed to be North Siam, but no white man has seen it alive. The Eid's deer from Burma are also unusual. There are two sets of antlers of Pere David's deer with the remarkable long black tines; these deer are long since extinct in a wild state and only a few exist, in one English park...
...William Tudor Gardiner of Gardiner, Me., aged 37, was a Harvard tackle 15 years ago. During the War he spent 22 months in the Army, advanced from private to first lieutenant. He entered the State House of Representatives in 1921, became its speaker. His chief pastime: hunting bear, moose, deer in his Maine woods...
...currency of some ancient empire, but for a U. S. $5 goldpiece issued in California in 1849. The coin was privately minted, at the time of the Gold Rush, for the Massachusetts & California Co. Its face depicts a cowboy busy with a lariat, a bear and a deer. For it a Philadelphia dealer, acting on behalf of an anonymous client, bid $7,900. The coin came from the big collection of the late Dr. George Alfred Lawrence, Manhattan neurologist...
...Hide Exchange deals only in hides of the cow family. Individual hide houses handle also horse hides, deer hides, but these hides have no Exchange. Skins of other animals are dealt with by furriers and taxidermists...
...jury of his New Jersey peers heard him make his admission. It was just a "lark" for him, he said. He and four other New Jerseyites had been shooting at a target in one of their back yards. They drank some New Jersey stuff and decided to go hunting deer. They sighted the Los Angeles. Merton Hankins wanted a ride. He waved his hands. He shouted. He jumped up and down. He turned capers. Lieutenant Commander Herbert V. Wiley of the Los Angeles paid no heed, so Merton Hankins fired his shotgun at the ship, he said, "just to attract...