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is most difficult; and there are some 

 kinds of ground, where, for instance, it is 

 very hard and dry, or frozen solid, on which 

 almost any man will be at fault. But any 

 one with a little practice can learn to do a 

 certain amount of tracking. On snow, of 

 course, it is very easy; but on the other 

 hand it is also peculiarly difficult to a 

 being seen by the deer when the ground is 

 white. After deer have been frightened 

 once or twice, or have even merely been 

 disturbed by man, they get the habit of 

 keeping a watch back on their trail ; and 

 when snow has fallen, a man is such a con- 

 spicuous object deer see him a long way off, 

 and even the tamest become wild. A deer 

 will often, before lying down, take a half 

 circle back to one side and make its bed a 

 few yards from its trail, where it can, itself 

 unseen, watch any person tracing it up. A 

 man tracking in snow needs to pay very 

 little heed to the footprints, which can be 

 followed without effort, but requires to 



