252 FRANK forester's FIELD SPOUTS. 



westward of the Mississippi, in the vast plains which constitute 

 so largo a portion of that country, up to the base of the Rocky 

 Mountains, and beyond tliem, to the shores of the Pacific. It 

 is shot in the same manner as the common Deer, by stalking;' it ; 

 which is more than ordinarily diflicult, from the fact, that it is 

 rarely Ibund in the Wdodland districts, preferring tlie wide 

 prairies, on \vhicli its (juick eye and discriminating nostril can 

 detect an enemy at above a mile's distance. The observations 

 I have made in relation to the use of Deer-hounds, are even 

 more applicable to this, than to the common species, from the 

 nature of the ground that it iidiabits. 



But my limits warn me to abstain from farther discussion of 

 Deer hunting, a subject to which I hope I have done justice, 

 albeit it is not a favorite field sport of mine, — for nobler quarry, 

 the Elk, the Bison, and the Bear, are summoning me angrily 

 Westward, and the Wild Turkey will not be forgotten. 



