LET US GO AFIELD 



greyhounds and it took a bit of riding to see a 

 finish there. 



Watching for a deer on a runway or at a salt-lie ^ 

 has been known to be successful, and more than one 

 camp cook has made a deer-lick out of a pork bar- 

 rel. "Shining" deer by jack-light in the summer- 

 time round the edges of lakes or streams is perhaps 

 the most abominable of all ways of being lawless. 



As deer are hunted today on the big camp-hunts 

 of the North, the two commonest forms of the sport 

 are driving and still-hunting. The latter is more 

 difficult, the former perhaps more generally success- 

 ful. Indeed, most of the deer killed in the woods 

 are driven to the gun either by intent or accident. 

 When the big influx of hunters begins on the open- 

 ing day the deer are disturbed and run about a 

 great deal more than they would normally, even 

 in the rutting season; so that a man passing across 

 the country or sitting by some runway may now 

 and then get an unearned shot at a deer that has 

 been driven by some one else. 



It seems to be the custom now for men to go 

 deerhunting in large parties. The railroads used 

 to solicit communities for deerhunting parties. One 

 morning at a Wisconsin town a hundred and sixty- 

 five deerhunters, all from Ohio and Indiana, stepped 

 casually off the train. In most of this Northern 



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