HUNTERS WHO HAVE BUCKFEVERED 

 not worth knowing. The young hunter looked 

 with great admiration upon his older companion 

 and would do anything that he directed. They 

 had sent their dogs up the swamps. They said 

 that all but one wore young dogs and that the 

 old dog did not amount to much. Our dog was 

 a good one, the best I ever hunted with, a good 

 tounger and swift on the trail. They were all 

 the time bragging and boasting on their dog 

 "Spot" for being a good runner. I tried to get 

 them to agree with me on what would be the re- 

 sult if their dog should bring a deer to this point 

 and I should kill it, or if my dog should chase 

 one or more to them and if they should kill it. 

 But they did not want to discuss the subject so 

 it was dropped. A fire was built in the end of 

 an old butternut log and we stood around it and 

 listened for the dogs. We were on the east end 

 of the ridge and in a hollow. On each side of 

 the hollow the bluff is very steep. The hollow 

 was about seventy-five or eighty yards wide. If 

 a deer was headed for this ridge from the east it 



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