lOO THE DEER FAMILY 



interest in the chase than in the cooking. The mere 

 thought of the odor of venison of any kind, mingled 

 with the scent of wood-fires, is most distracting. 



There has been much written about the pursuit of 

 the mule-deer and his performances in the presence of 

 danger that is conflicting. The reason for this is 

 found, no doubt, when we consider the fact that all 

 animals behave differently, when abundant and com- 

 paratively tame, than they do when much persecuted 

 and extremely wild. It is to be remembered, too, that 

 the same deer behave differently at different times and 

 on different grounds. 



Now that the hounds are no longer to be used on 

 deer, either in coursing or in driving them to water or 

 to the guns stationed on run-ways, but one method of 

 pursuit — stalking or still-hunting — remains. It has 

 been the writer's good fortune to spend weeks at a 

 time among the mule-deer, when they were quite 

 tame, or at least not very wild. Upon one of my 

 shooting-trips we literally went after the deer with a 

 blare of trumpets (or more accurately trumpet, since 

 we had only one), and although we had very noisy 

 camps, being accompanied by a company of mounted 

 infantry, many mule-deer were seen quite near the 

 camps, and put to flight at close range as we marched 

 away. The second day out from Fort Keogh, Mont., 

 Captain Baldwin asked me at our evening camp- 

 fire if I preferred to have the bugle-calls stopped, 

 especially the reveille, suggesting that it, no doubt, 

 alarmed the deer, but the game was evidently so abun- 

 dant that I had no hesitation in deciding in favor of the 

 music, since I loved to hear the bugle-calls, and after 



