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the stream, keeping hounds on the banks on each 

 side at the same time. Running water will carry 

 the scent of a deer a very long distance. I have 

 seen hounds rush into the water, and oive tongue on 

 a stream half a mile below the spot where the deer 

 had merely crossed a few minutes before, and while 

 a deer remains in the river the water will carry the 

 scent down. If in casting up the stream therefore, 

 the hounds acknowledge the scent, you may assume 

 that the deer is above you in the water. A deer 

 will often go for one or two miles in the water, 

 wading and swimming, and sometimes leaving the 

 stream for a space, and returning. If then you hit 

 the deer as you draw up stream, keep the hounds 

 moving and the chances are you will come upon 

 him in the water, and there 'set him up,' or hit him 

 off if he has broken soil and again taken to the 

 open. It follows that you should generally, if you 

 have no information to guide you, cast up stream 

 before you cast down. If you cannot hit the deer 

 up stream, try the hounds down the water, taking 

 great care to have hounds on each side, and keeping 

 some of them in the water where it is shallow, so 

 that they may catch the scent on any pebbles or 

 beds of gravel lying above the water, if the deer 

 should happen to have touched them in passing. 



