TRACKS AND TRACKING 



through the liver, kicks, and at other times it 

 humps itself up, but always it leaves the place 

 at a quite lively rate, making a trail like a lung- 

 shot deer, with here and there a cross jump 

 between. ( See illustration. ) It is hard to advise 

 what one should do in this case. I generally 

 smoke a pipeful of tobacco before taking up the 

 trail, to give the animal time to lie down. After 

 that I follow and try to get another shot. While 

 I have killed deer instantly with shots through 

 the liver, there have been some that I never 

 brought to bag. 



Once I killed an elk three days after we had 

 fried parts of its liver which had dropped out 

 through the hole made by a projectile from a 

 heavy-caliber English rifle, used previously for 

 hunting elephants. At another time I killed a 

 deer one year after having shot it through the 

 liver. When killed, this deer was apparently as 

 well and fat as could be, though in place of the 

 soft liver we found a hard mass. 



A shot through the intestines causes the animal 

 to kick violently, hump up its back, and go off 

 at a slow rate. It usually lies down within a 



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