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we could not track it by the blood without difficulty. 

 About the tenth of November, the deer begin to 

 -ravel from one place to another, and by that time I- 

 jad generally chosen my hunting ground. I would 

 ake my station upon the summit of some hill, where 

 [ could command a view in all directions. I would 

 iome ^mes mount a tree to the height of fifty feet. 

 3n one occasion I discovered from the top of a tree 

 even deer and three bears. I descended and killed 

 wo of the deer, but the bears escaped. 



My first lessons in hunting were received from an 

 )ld hunter, named John Mills. He lived near my 

 ather's, and wishing to remove to Canada, sold his 

 arm to my father. He then offered to sell me his 

 log, and teach me all he knew aoout deer hunting, 

 or fifteen cfollars, which I accepted, I had already 

 mnted several years, but his instructions were of 

 greater value to me than all my previous experience. 

 Che substance of his instructions I have given the 

 •eader. The following autumn I went out on a hunt- 

 ng expedition, taking with me the dog I had bought 

 >f Mills and another one which I had previously 

 >wned. I followed the directions I had received, 

 md with a success which showed their value. From 

 ;he early part of October until the first of February 

 [ killed twenty-eight bears and a large number of 

 leer. Mills also taught ' me, among other things, 

 iow to train dogs for hunting, as well as the kind of 

 tnimals to select. The usual resorts for deer at dif- 

 ferent seasons, which I also learned from my Mentor 

 ire as follows. In June they frequent beech and 



