Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1896 — An Albino Buck. [ARTICLE]

An Albino Buck.

For oddity there is nothing in the records of this fall’s sport which touches the big albino buck shot by A. A. Howard of Lewiston in the KatahdiiLlron Works region last week. Mr. Howard, who used to live in that section, knows the woods like a book, and never comes home empty handed. The albino he met alone in a stretch of burnt land where stumps of sapling pine and poplar bushes made it rather hard shooting. His first shot, fired at a distance of ten rods, took effect in the neck, and the second, fired as the buck skimmed through the valley, plowed its way down the back. The buck, which has been hung up in Mr. Howard’s yard in Spring street, I.ewiston, this week, has attracted lots of attention. To begin with, it is a large one, with good antlers. -The neck is mottled brown and white, rather more white than brown, and looking as though powder had been sifted into the fur. The back has the usual gray and brown markings, with here and there a spot or bloteh of white, “I have been in the woods a good deal, but I never saw anything just likethis,” says Mr. Howard.—Lewiston,. Me., Journal.