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CHASSE ON SKIDOR. 



Various expedients are resorted to in Scandinavia, to 

 circumvent the wild rein- deer. 



CHASSE ON SKIDOR 



In the winter time, or rather in the spring, when there is 

 share, or a crust upon the surface of the snow, numbers are 

 run down by the Lapps and squatters on Skidor ; for if the 

 snow will bear the man and not the deer, they are soon 

 overtaken and slaughtered. During the depth of the winter, 

 however, excepting in wooded districts, where the snow is not 

 only deep but loose, this feat is not so easy of accomplish- 



