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kr break sheer off. Here the deer lies, 

 usually among a few straggling pines or 

 cedars, on the very edge of the straight side- 

 wall of the canyon, with a steep-shelving 

 slope above him, so that he cannot be seen 

 from the summit ; and in such places it 

 next to impossible to get at him. If lying 

 on a cedar-grown spur or ridge-point, the 

 still-hunter has a better chance, for the 

 evergreen needles with which the ground is 

 covered enable a man to walk noiselessly, 

 and, by stooping or going on all fours, he 

 can keep under the branches. But it is at 

 all times hard and unsatisfactory work to 

 find and successfully still-hunt a deer that 

 is enjoying its day rest. Generally, the 

 only result is to find the warm, fresh bed 

 from which the deer has just sneaked off, 

 the blades of grass still slowly rising, after 

 the hasty departure of the weight that has 

 flattened them down; or else, if in dense 

 cover, the hunter suddenly hears a scram- 

 ble, a couple of crashing bounds through 

 the twigs and dead limbs, and gets a mo- 



