Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 306, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1920 — ANSWER CALL OF FRIEND [ARTICLE]

ANSWER CALL OF FRIEND

Deer's Remarkable Attachment to Maa Who Had Cared for It In Its Helplessness. A buck deer answer* the calls of Jerry Shine, employed by the municipal water district at Alpin* dam, near San Raphael, Cal, Long ago Shine one day came upon a dead doe in the trail of the forest, and standing beside the mother was a fawn. It was miles to Shine’s cabin, but he carried the fawn home with him. fed it and gave it the name of Billy. After a time Shine left the district. He returned several days ago and asked his fellow workers the whereabouts of his deer. They laughed at him; the deer had gone back to nature, they said. • Shine mounted the parapet of the dam and called for Billy. The deer, now the proud possessor of twopronged horns, bounded out of the forest A photograph was taken of the man and the animal, as the latter rested his forefeet on the shoulder eC Shine.