HUNTING THE DEER 



country large camps, each with its own cook, locate 

 here and there, either in big tents or in abandoned 

 logging camps. With so many men in camp the 

 drive is the most natural fashion of hunting, though 

 in order to practice it successfully the leader must 

 have a good knowledge of the country. Of course, 

 if only two or three men are out still-hunting, very 

 often a little drive will be made, one man going 

 through a clump of bushes while the others wait 

 on the farther edge. Little or big, the principle of 

 the drive is the same. 



Deer move about, like all other wild animals, 

 mostly in the morning or in the evening ; in the day- 

 time they lie under cover. As dawn approaches 

 they are ready to start out at any small alarm, so 

 that is the best time to make a drive. Suppose we 

 have a spruce thicket shot through with second 

 growth or crossed by a cedar swamp, making a 

 heavy cover half a mile or a mile across. If much 

 of the surrounding country is more or less open 

 this thicket is apt to conceal several deer. To drive 

 them out is really a very cruel thing to the hunters 

 who make the drive, for they will be obliged to get 

 up at about four o'clock in the morning, eat a break- 

 fast by candlelight, and walk or ride in the dark 

 perhaps several miles to the appointed cover. 



The drive is very often made against the wind, 

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