Word: buckly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some 350,000 people, including 100,000 over Labor Day weekend, visited the State Park in Watkins Glen, N. Y. to gape across a deep, narrow gorge at the buck deer with horns in velvet which, presumably chased by dogs and injured on the flank, had become marooned on a rocky ledge (TIME, Sept. 4 & 11). No end of elaborate wiles and artifices, including stuffed deer, an Indian chief, a plank bridge, were brought into play to lure the animal from its prison, all to no avail. Park employes feared that, if frightened, the buck might plunge over the brink...
Meanwhile the handsome, velvet-horned seven-point buck deer marooned on a ledge in Watkins Glen, N. Y. State Park, about 275 miles from Lake Placid, continued to stump his would-be rescuers (TIME, Sept. 4). He was only 35 ft. up on the 85-ft. wall of a mountain gorge, but he viewed with alarm all efforts by human beings to rescue...
...buck had bruised its flank badly when something, probably dogs, frightened it, and its mate now lying dead in the gorge below, into scrambling over great boulders onto the ledge. It might have rested there comfortably, with dew to lick and foliage to nibble, until it got well enough to scramble back the way it had come. But Man was everywhere. Men gathered by hundreds along the path on the chasm's opposite bank. Men threw a threatening bridge straight across to the ledge. Worst of all, they descended terrifyingly from...
...branches and moss were strewn across the five-foot-wide plank bridge, a trail of salt sprinkled across it as a lure. Park officials were deluged with rescue suggestions. One man wanted to put an opiate in the deer's water. Another suggested a jacklight to lure the buck across the bridge at night. A farmer offered to bring a flock of sheep, place them reassuringly on the chasm's opposite bank. Two taxidermists from Elmira brought a pair of stuffed deer on rollers. Park Superintendent Frank Haight had almost decided that the deer should be left alone...
...their grandchild to the act, watch him grow up into a Hollywood juvenile. When he misbehaves instead of going to the studio, old Ted Hackett pulls himself out of a lady's bed, packs him off to the lot, dies com- fortably while watching him do an honest buck & wing in the family tradition...