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Hunting the Mule -Deer in Colorado. 



ON THE GRAND. 



Although you will manage so as to be always within reach of sup- 

 plies and a post-office, the farther you get from traveled roads and 

 recently hunted ground the better. Go till you are sure there is 

 game about you ; then settle down and take things coolly. If you 

 find a camp of genuine and experienced hunters in the neighbor- 

 hood, they may, at first, look coldly upon you, as one likely to drive 

 the game off the accessible ranges without getting any ; at any rate, 

 driving it away from them. If you are wise, you will acknowledge 

 yourself a novice, and remembering that their sole living may be in 

 this, as yours in quite another and probably more lucrative kind of 

 hunt back across the Mississippi somewhere, perhaps you will do 



