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I ran up to the spot where the deer was standing when shot at, & discoverd a spot of blood, which at once once started me on the track, & calling to Peshego Peshwego that the deer was hit, I ran for about 100 yards when looking ahead I saw something lying on the ground which I concluded was the deer. The Indian by this time came up & I said to him, You have got something in your eye today to miss such an easy shot.

Oh, no. I told you your gun would never kill a deer, shoot to word never kill one. When I walked up & kicked over the body of the buck which had been shot through the heart the ball passing completely through the body, notwiithstanding which he had run 100 yards before he fell —