OF A RANCHMAN 



One method of killing deer on horseback 

 is very exciting. Many of the valleys or 

 ravines extend with continual abrupt turns 

 and windings for several miles, the brush 

 and young trees stretching with constant 

 breaks down the middle of the bottom, and 

 leaving a space on each side along which a 

 surefooted horse can gallop at speed. Two 

 men, on swift, hardy horses, can hunt down 

 such a ravine very successfully at evening, 

 by each taking a side and galloping at a 

 good speed the whole length against the 

 1 The patter of the unshod hoofs over 

 the turf makes but little noise ; and the turns 

 are so numerous and abrupt, and the horses 

 go so swiftly, that the hunters come on the 

 deer almost before the latter are aware of 

 their presence. If it is so late in the day 

 that the deer have begun to move they will 

 find the horses close up before they have a 

 suspicion of danger, while if they are still 

 lying in the cover the suddenness of the ap- 

 pearance of their foe is apt to so startle them 

 as to make them break out and show them- 



