A BABY’S THRILL

Southland Times, Issue 22758, 7 December 1935, Page 4

A BABY’S THRILL

CAUGHT ON DEER’S ANTLERS. ALL ENDS WELL. Vancouver, November 1. At the little settlement of Harrison Mills, British Columbia, Stanley Hubert, thirteen-months-old son of Mr and Mrs James Hubert, was playing in his garden with his five-year-old sister, Mary, when a buck deer came in from the woods, wandered through the garden, approached the children and licked the baby’s face. “The deer was not afraid,” said little Mary in telling the story. “He came up to us and licked Stan’s face, but Stan didn’t like it and cried. Then the deer ran away with Stan.” What happened, apparently, was that the baby raised his arms to protect his face, his red wool sweater became entangled in the deer’s antlers and the deer, in turn frightened, started at a gallop for other parts. Mrs Hubert heard the clamour and got to the door in time to see deer and baby disappearing in the direction of a

creek 100 yards distant. The animal’s tracks led to the spot where the creek is spanned by a single log thirty feet long, ten feet above the water. The deer had gone over it, and the creek was searched unavailingly for the infant. Then a lusty yell in the wood on the other side attracted the frantic mother, and Stanley was found unhurt among the trees. The threads of wool that had held him had given way, and he and his steed had parted company.