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and is next in its exterminating effects. The third, 

 which may be looked upon as a mere amusement, is 

 named Driving. Although many deer are destroyed by 

 this latter method, it is not by any means so pernicious 

 as the others. These methods I shall describe sepa- 

 rately. 



Still Hunting is followed as a kind of trade, by most 

 of our frontier men. To be practiced with success, it 

 requires great activity, an expert management of the 

 rifle, and a thorough knowledge of the forest, together 

 with an intimate acquaintance with the habits of the 

 deer, not only at different seasons of the year, but also 

 at every hour of the day, as the hunter must be aware 

 of the situations which the game prefers, and in which 

 it is most likely to be found, at any particular time. I 

 might here present you with a full account of the habits 

 of our deer, were it not my intention to lay before you, 

 at some future period, in the form of a distinct work, 

 the observations which I have made on the various 

 quadrupeds of our extensive territories. 



Illustrations of any kind require to be presented in 

 the best possible light. "VVe will therefore suppose that 

 we are about to follow the true hunter, as the Still Hun- 

 ter is also called, through the interior of the tangled 

 woods, across morasses, ravines, and such places where 

 the game may prove more or less plentiful, even should 

 none be found there in the first instance. We will allow 

 our hunter all the agility, patience, and care, which his 

 occupation requires, and will march in his rear, as if we 

 were spies, watching all his motions. 

 , His dress, you observe, consists of a leather hunting- 



