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...last week of my daughter, Fifi (see p. 32) it was reported from Manhattan that my agent had purchased, for $100,000, a rug once belonging to the late Sultan Abdul Aziz of Turkey. The rug has a background of moss-green creepers, with orange-red stems, among which deer, gazelles, sheep, goats are pursued by lions and leopards.* There is a centre medallion of rose-crimson, with vine traceries in pink and silver around four hawklike birds...
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Near Menominee, Mich., one Oscar Lebouf sighted through underbrush, squeezed his rifle-trigger, went crashing through the bushes after his bullet. Still twitching on the ground lay a buck deer. "Sapristi!" muttered Mr. Lebouf. "She sure ees one fine head of horns. By gar, I feex him, queeck!" Forgetting his gun he fumbled in his pocket for his shipping license, whipped it out, tied it to a horn. "Sac' bleu, no man can come an' take heem now," whispered Mr. Lebouf. He proudly examined the body to see where' his bullet had struck. Tickled back to consciousness...
...uncommon thing for a knocked-down deer to do. A bullet clipping a deer at the base of the horns or just above the spine will often stun the animal for some time. Experienced deerslayers invariably sever their kill's jugular vein immediately upon reaching it, in the interests of safety, mercy, and to bleed the meat while it is still warm...
...Whitney, though seen and named in 1864, was not climbed until 1873, and no wonder! Now hundreds of people--men, women, and older children--climb it every summer and fish and camp; we passed hunting parties going in for the deer season, September 1, but the country is so immense we met few on the trails. Some young people, ror economy, hire a pack-mule and walk, but the trails are steep and often dusty, so that a horse is a necessity for real pleasure. Our horses were mountain bred, sure-footed, and gentle. We estimated the cost...