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might be expected to bed, following any trails 

 that led into thick patches of brush or young 

 trees, one of us then hunting through the 

 patch while the other kept watch without 

 Doubtless we must have passed close to more 

 than one deer, and doubtless others heard 

 us and skulked off through the thick cover; 

 but, although we saw plenty of signs, we 

 saw neither hoof nor hair of living thing. 

 It is under such circumstances that a still- 

 hunter needs to show resolution, and to per- 

 severe until his luck turns this being a 

 euphemistic way of saying, until he ceases to 

 commit the various blunders which alarm the 

 deer and make them get out of the way. 

 Plenty of good shots become disgusted if 

 they do not see a deer early in the morning, 

 and go home ; still more, if they do not see 

 one in two or three days. Others will go 

 on hunting, but become careless, stumble and 

 P on dried sticks, and let their eyes fall 

 to the ground. It is a good test of a man's 

 resolution to see if, at the end of a long and 

 unsuccessful tramp after deer, he moves just 



