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them and they will not move. Father told me 

 that while hunting on the North Aarsh he 

 stepped over two of them in the grass before 

 they ran, whilst he was looking for a squirrel fox. 

 If you find one when very young you can pick it 

 up and carry it a short distance and then let it 

 down and it will follow you home like a dog and 

 become very tame. Another time we were 

 hunting and the dog ran a deer out of the thicket 

 and we all fired and wounded it, making enough 

 noise to drive all the deer out of the country. 

 We followed the wounded deer a short distance 

 and got it, After hunting around for awhile we 

 started for camp. In the evening our route to 

 camp took us by the same thicket from which 

 we started the deer in the morning. We were 

 scattered out, tired and weary, taking our time 

 to it. One of the party was some distance be- 

 hind and near the thicket in the marsh. On 

 turning around I saw him aiming at something 

 ten or fifteen feet from him in the grass. He 

 fired and killed what he supposed was a rabbit, 



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