308 EARLY DAY STORIES. 



CHAPTER XXVIII. 

 Hunting Stories Lying in Wait for Game Concluded. 



This chapter, like the previous one, will give some of 

 my experiences in watching and waiting for game to ap- 

 proach within shooting distance, after it had been discovered 

 when some distance away, and the direction in which it was 

 traveling had been determined. I have never had any good 

 luck in watching at a run-way, or in lying in wait at one 

 end of a swamp or of a bushy ravine, while others under- 

 took to drive the game towards me. In every such instance 

 the game, if started at all, either turned off in some other 

 direction, or else broke cover too far away from my station 

 for a shot. But a good many times while hunting in Ne- 

 braska and South Dakota, I have discovered game at a con- 

 siderable distance, anywhere from a quarter of a mile to a 

 mile away, and by noting which way it was traveling, have 

 been able to secrete myself in such a position as to get a 

 good shot. 



Generally, when hunting, I have carried a field glass, 

 and with its help have found game when it was so far off 

 that it probably would not have been seen with the naked 

 eye. Many times also when something was seen at a dis- 

 tance that might or might not be game, the field glass would 

 quickly solve the question. I remember one time while 

 working on the head of Wallace creek in Greeley county; 

 I had been running section lines all day and making plats 

 of railroad lands. I was making for camp as fast as I could 

 walk, as it was almost night, when I saw a dark object at 

 the foot of a clay bank about eighty rods away that looked 

 very much like a black tail deer lying down. I thought, 

 what a chance to get a good shot if that was only a deer. 



