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edge of the country, and a good knowl- 

 edge of the habits of the game. The hunter 

 must keep a sharp look-out for deer sign; 

 for, though a man soon gets to have a gen- 

 eral knowledge of the kind of places in 

 which deer are likely to be, yet he will also 

 find that they are either very capricious, or 

 else that no man has more than a partial 

 understanding of their tastes and likings; 

 for many spots apparently just suited to 

 them will be almost uninhabited, while in 

 others they will be found where it would 

 hardly occur to any one to suspect their 

 presence. Any cause may temporarily 

 drive deer out of a given locality. Still- 

 hunting, especially, is sure to send many 

 away, while rendering the others extremely 

 wild and shy, and where deer have become 

 used to being pursued in only one way, it 

 is often an excellent plan to try some en- 

 tirely different method. 



A certain knowledge of how to track deer 

 is very useful. To become a really skilful 



