THE WAYS OF SPORTSMEN 



I HAVE often had occasion to notice how 

 much more intelligence the bird carries in its 

 eye than does the animal or quadruped. 



The animal will see you, too, if you are mov- 

 ing, but if you stand quite still even the wary 

 fox will pass within a few yards of you and not 

 know you from a stump, unless the wind brings 

 him your scent. 



But a crow or a hawk will discern you when 

 you think yourself quite hidden. His eye is 

 as keen as the fox's sense of smell, and seems 

 fairly to penetrate veils and screens. Most of 

 the water-fowl are equally sharp-eyed. 



The chief reliance of the animals for their 

 safety, as well as for their food, is upon the 

 keenness of their scent, while the fowls of the 

 air depend mainly upon the eye. 



A hunter out in Missouri relates how closely 

 a deer approached him one day in the woods. 

 The hunter was standing on the top of a log, 

 about four feet from the ground, when the deer 

 bounded playfully into a glade in the forest, a 

 couple of hundred yards away. The animal 

 began to feed and to move slowly toward the 

 hunter. He was on the alert, but did not see 

 or scent his enemy. He never took a bite of 



