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to advantage in Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, and 

 Arkansas, where there are still plenty. It should 

 also be tried in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, etc. 

 Even in barrens and timber-land it would be 

 better to hunt deer in this way than to still 

 hunt for them on foot, if the ground is prac- 

 ticable for a horse. In some rugged places a 

 horse cannot go ; and in wet marshes, morasses, 

 and shaking bogs a horse with a man on his 

 back would sink in and be unable to struggle 

 out. In Missouri deer are generally driven with 

 hounds, and shot at crossing-places and runways. 

 There are also many killed by still hunting. 



To have any chance of success in deer-hunt- 

 ing, it is necessary that the sportsman should 

 know the lay of the country and the places in 

 which they are likely to be found. A stranger 

 to the neighborhood had better get an old hunter 

 to go out with him for a few days. A know- 

 ledge of their habits in the different localities is 

 required, and it would take a long time to learn 

 these if they were not imparted by some one 

 who knows them. The deer are now wild and 

 shy in most places. They have a keen nose, and 

 can scent a man to windward before he can see 

 them, which makes it requisite to hunt up-wjnd. 



