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it shakes again, stop and stand stock-still 

 until it shakes again ; then advance, and so 

 on until you get close enough to shoot. If 

 there are more than one, when you shoot stand 

 perfectly still ; the rest are not apt to run off 

 immediately after the first shot ; they may 

 make a jump or two and then stop and look : 

 at this moment raise your gun and bring an- 

 other down that is, if you have not got the 

 buck ague too bad. 



In the fall of the year the deer do their 

 rutting, commencing about the first frost. 

 The male, or buck deer, make what are called 

 buck-scrapes by pawing the ground with their 

 feet like a bull, generally near a tree where 

 they can wring the limbs or branches with 

 their horns while pawing. Both sexes of the 

 deer visit the buck-scrapes early in the morn- 

 ing. The doe generally comes first, then the 

 buck. Having found a buck-scrape, go early 

 in the morning, say at daylight; conceal your- 

 self thirty or forty yards to one side of the 



