THE HUI^TER AID TRAPPER. 



CHAPTER I. 



DEER HUNTING. 



Where deer are plenty they are often seen in fields and 

 in the woods, but although they are often shot in one of 

 these happen-soes, it takes something more than this to 

 make a successful deer hunter. It requires an understand- 

 ing of the habits of the animal. In the spring of the 

 year, when the deer is i3oor, and worthless as food, and 

 the hide is thin and good for nothing, he is careless as to 

 the approach of man, and may be seen in the meadows 

 and fields searching for food. 



I do not know that they would at this time be unhealthy 

 as food, as it is said that the deer is never sick. I certainly 

 never saw a sick deer, although I have killed hundreds in 

 my life. Some of them were cripples, but none of them 

 seemed to be diseased. The deer has no gall in his liver, 

 but in the month of June I have found cavities in the 

 liver filled with a substance resembling gall, having round, 

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