The Central Presbyterian

A Girl Takes the Deer by the Horns.

Miss Emma Richards, of Akron, Ohio, a girl verging on twenty years of age, was with her mother visiting at the residence of Mr. Timothy Loomis, in Lodi, when a son of Timothy, surnamed Phineas, proposed that he should show her a small herd of deer that were kept in an enclosure on their premises. The young lady consented, and Phineas started into the brush to start them up, the young lady meanwhile standing at the gate to await the appearance of the menagerie.

Suddenly she heard a cry of "murder," in the somewhat juvenile voice of Phineas.— Never thinking of fear, Miss Richards started in the direction of the noise, and after going a few rods discovered the boy pinned to the earth, while an angry buck stood over him, with the prong of one horn through the flesh of the boy's side and imbedded in the earth. She instantly grasped a club and went for Mr. Buck. He paid no attention to the first and second blows, but when she gave him the third crack he turned and went for her. Unable to ward off his approach with the club, she dropped it and grasped him by the antlers, at the same time calling to the boy to arise and put for the fence.— He was either too much hurt or too badly scared to mind her, and so, disengaging one hand, she lifted the boy to his feet, at the same time crowding the deer back with the other. Once on his pins young Phineas found his speed, and put for the fence like a streak of lightning on a copper rod, while the brave girl gave all her attention to Mr. Buck. It was a lively tussle, and kept all her nerve and pluck to prevent her being thrown to the ground. Still holding on to the horns, she backed off gradually, and in that manner reached the fence, but not till her clothes were badly torn and her body was bruised again and again. At last, nearly exhausted, she reached the fence and succeeded in getting over it without receiving any serious injury. It was a close call, but the spirit which many a man couldn't have furnished won the day.—Cleveland Leader.