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camp. You will find a supreme pleasure in being able 

 to venture from camp with confidence, and it will more than 

 pay for the trouble; also the success of your hunting will be 

 greater, as you can hunt until quite late in the evening, _ 

 which is the best time to look for deer, when otherwise your 

 anxiety to find camp would occupy your thoughts and de- 

 tract from the pursuit of game. 



These instructions are not for old woodsmen or hunters, 

 as they have by long observation and experience learned 

 how to keep their course, and it seems almost instinctively so ; 

 however, they are not infallible, for if closely questioned 

 they will admit having spent many lonely nights in the 

 woods, through their inability to find camp. 



The young hunter will find that it will more than repay 

 him to take any and every precaution that will give him 

 confidence, courage, and assurance. All kinds of large 

 game is constantly on the alert; their hearing is acute, and 

 their eyesight is very sharp, and their sense of smell is phe- 

 nomenal. They are at all times on the lookout for an enemy; 

 therefore, to successfully outgeneral the wary denizens of 

 the forest, requires a species of craft that is almost innate, or 

 the result of long, very long, experience. Silence, stealth, 

 patience, and endurance are the main requirements. By 

 observation, learn the places where deer use, and feed, or 

 routes they travel. In traveling, deer follow each other, 

 even to making distinct trails; these are called runways. 

 After you have found their feeding grounds and runways, 

 if you have the patience to sit "quietly on a log" and the 

 endurance to withstand the cold for a few hours each day, 

 morning and evening, you will certainly be rewarded with 

 a shot at a deer, at short range. A deer coming from the 

 windward toward you will pass within a few feet of you and 

 not see you, provided you don't move, and remain perfectly 

 quiet; also, a deer may even get scent of you, but he von't 



