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aided wits against an animal knowing so well how 

 to care for itself, that when you seek it you had 

 better leave in camp everything in the nature of 

 a gillie or a guide or even your best hunting com- 

 panion, or you will only double the chances of its 

 slipping away unsuspected. And you had better 

 wear soft moccasins as well as in the East, and 

 take every other precaution consistent with cover- 

 ing ground enough. When you have learned him 

 well you will say that the mule-deer is the peer 

 of any game, next to the Virginia, and almost 

 equal to him. 



Note. — Much that applies with equal force to modes of hunting 

 this deer has been stated under the title of the blacktail, and could 

 not well be repeated without trespassing on the patience of the 

 reader who knows how to apply the principles. 



