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does not hold ; they will cling to a place far 

 more tenaciously, even if often harassed. 

 The former being the more conspicuous, and 

 living in such open ground, is apt to be 

 more persecuted; while the white-tail, 

 longer than any other animal, keeps its 

 place in the land in spite of the swinish 

 game butchers, who hunt for hides and not 

 for sport or actual food, and who murder 

 the gravid doe and the spotted fawn with 

 as little hesitation as they would kill a buck 

 of ten points. No one who is not himself 

 a sportsman and lover of nature can realize 

 the intense indignation with which a true 

 hunter sees these butchers at their brutal 

 work of slaughtering the game, in season 

 and out, for the sake of the few dollars they 

 are too lazy to earn in any other and more 

 honest way. 



All game animals rely upon both eyes, 

 ears, and nose to warn them of the approach 

 of danger ; but the amount of reliance 

 placed on each sense varies greatly in dif- 

 ferent species. Those found out on the 



