CHAPTER IV 



THE DEER OF THE RIVER 

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OF all the large game of the United 

 States, the white-tail deer is the best 

 known and the most widely distributed. 

 Taking the Union as a whole, fully ten men 

 will be found who have killed white-tail 

 for one who has killed any other kind of 

 large game. And it is the only ruminant 

 animal which is able to live on in the land 

 even when it has been pretty thickly settled. 

 There is hardly a State wherein it does 

 not still exist, at least in some out-of-the- 

 way corner ; and long after the elk and the 

 buffalo have passed away, and when the 

 big-horn and prong-horn have become rare 

 indeed, the white-tail deer will still be com- 

 mon in certain parts of the country. 



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