i ;o The Black-Tail Deer. 



three days. Others will go on hunting, but become care- 

 less, stumble and step on dried sticks, and let their eyes 

 fall to the ground. It is a good test of a man's resolution 

 to see if, at the end of a long and unsuccessful tramp 

 after deer, he moves just as carefully, and keeps just 

 as sharp a look-out as he did at the beginning. If he 

 does this, and exercises a little common-sense in still- 

 hunting, as in every thing else, common-sense is the most 

 necessary of qualities, he may be sure that his reward 

 will come some day ; and when it does come, he feels 

 a gratification that only his fellow-sportsmen can under- 

 stand. 



We lunched at the foot of a great clay butte, where 

 there was a bed of snow. Fall or winter hunting in 

 the Bad Lands has one great advantage : the hunter is 

 not annoyed by thirst as he is almost sure to be if walking 

 for long hours under the blazing summer sun. If he 

 gets very thirsty, a mouthful or two of snow from some 

 hollow will moisten his lips and throat ; and anyhow 

 thirstiness is largely a mere matter of habit. For lunch, 

 the best thing a hunter can carry is dried or smoked veni- 

 son, with not too much salt in it. It is much better than 

 bread, and not nearly so dry ; and it is easier to carry, 

 as a couple of pieces can be thrust into the bosom of 

 the hunting-shirt or the pocket, or in fact anywhere ; and 

 for keeping up a man's strength there is nothing that 

 comes up to it. 



After lunch we hunted until the shadows began to 

 lengthen out, when we went back to our horses. The 

 buck was packed behind good old Manitou, who can carry 



