The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 5, 1984 Page: 17 of 30
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THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1984
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In the South American camp a
young man screamed for help when
the big leopard clamped down on his
hand. Pappy Deeg ran and
prying the animal’s mouth open. His
partner said “Pappy, you’re killing
that animal and I’ve got him sold for
$400. Lift some of your weight off
him, man!”
Sure enough the animal was limp
when Pappy finally got its mouth
open. Pappy started artificial
respiration and shouted, “Get that
cage door open and be ready to close
it quick.” As soon as he saw the
leopard flutter his eyes he said,
“Here he comes!” He slammed the
animal in that cage and they shut
the door and you never saw such a
fit as that animal had. He was all
over that cage and it’s a good thing
it was strong. Somehow the animal
had come out of the cage when some
one failed to fasten the door.
That night if you had looked in
on Pappy after he had gone to bed
you would have seen a cute little
baby jaguar cuddled up next to him
and purring away like a kitten. All
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Mr. Deeg related this episode to
me when I interviewed him for this
story. He told me, “That little baby
jaguar slept with me every night
while I was in Barranauilla.
Columbia, South America, and he
would purr until I went to sleep.”
He continued, “I stayed with a
man there and we bought and sold
birds, snakes, jaguars, leopards, and I
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this six foot, two inch rattlesnake
was caught in South America. Deeg
commented that the South Ameri-
can rattle is both neurotoxic and
hemotoxic. “Being bitten, a man
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framed. His son is an excellent
artist. Pappy treasures the
envelopes and I surely would, too, if
I had received letters with such
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beautiful sketches on them. "I started to Alamo Business
Pappy, tell me something about College when I was 14, was a steno-
yourself. He replied, I was born in grapher and secretary for a realtor
San Antonio November 28, 1905. I when I was 15 and could type 92
started public school when I was words a minute and take dictation at
five years old. I made my own about 115. After working there a
money after I was eight by selling year he talked me into going back to
figs, rabbits, fish and cutting grass, school. He took a liking to me, you
I like to camp out and when I was know, and he said he would give me
only nine or ten years old, just a work in the evenings and on
little old kid, I would go out to the Saturdays and if he didn’t have it
Slough River and stay overnight by he’d get some of the lawyers to give
myself. me work.
“And when I was ten I built a "I went back to school and
16-foot canoe. I used old bicycle rims graduated from Main Avenue High
for the prows. I kept that canoe for in 1924 and went to University of
ten years up on Medina Lake at Texas for a year and A&M one year.
Haby s Cove. Then things got so bad I was freshman representative on
I couldn’t pay the rent on it and I the Student Council and made the
had to let the canoe go. honor roll. After college I came
“I used to camp out by myself for home and worked at many different
a week at a time with a small box of occupations.
grub and I ate fish nearly all the “I married Louise Staudt in 1929
time. Sometimes I would go with and our son was born a year later,
another boy, just the two of us. We We had a very hard time during the
had a tarp that was about 8 feet by depression. I went broke and had to
10 feet that we used for a tent and
we slept under that.
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addressed just “Pappy Deeg 78006.” caught in South America and kept bird even drew blood when he bit
Pappy showed me some of the by Deeg for two years before being Mrs. Deeprs ankles while she was at
envelopes that he received from sold. “He was a one-man bird and work in 8 k^hen
his son. Everyone of them had a wouldn’t let anyone touch me.”
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Immigration Patrol Service. He is
wearing the official rough duty
“river uniform” he often wore while
tracking. He retired as Senior
Patrol Inspector in April, 1962.
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The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 5, 1984, newspaper, April 5, 1984; Boerne, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1562130/m1/17/?q=waco+tornado: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Patrick Heath Public Library.