Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1898 — THE TAME FAWN. [ARTICLE]

THE TAME FAWN.

tin OI«f r ..»ic Wild Sarrowly Escaped wltii tier life, Although it does ikj appreciate confinement iu a puddock, it is easy to lame u fawn and it makes a delightful pel until it attains t.o years pf indiscretion, says the Badminton Magazine. A fame roe used to follow the children everywhere round the old castle of Duntroon and even up the stairs and into the rooms. One of his little playfellows hud been obliged to give up his room so u gentleman who had come to stay there and the surprise of the guest was unbounded when the head and neck of a roe protruded through his half-open door. “Dear me!” he said, "game must be extremely plentiful in t liese parts.” Yet, just 11s a kitten would be the most delightful of pets except for its unfortunate habit of growing into a cat, so a roe and especially a buck, becomes too much of a handful as a pet when it grows up. Their beautiful little horns are both sharp and dangerous and a tame roebuck very nearly put an old woman off the road and into the Crinan canal by its obtrusive attentions. It meant no harm; it really expected to get u lump of rock salt, with which it had usually been rewarded for its caresses, but the old dame did not appreciate its uncanny approaches and narrowly escaped with her life.