200 EARLY DAY STORIES. 



CHAPTER XXVII. 

 Hunting Stories — Lying In Wait for Game. 



Every person who has done much hunting for large 

 game, has found out that often the best way to get a shot 

 is to He in wait for the game to approach. This is equally 

 true whether the hunting is done on the prairie or in the 

 timber. All kinds of game travel about a great deal. 



The elk do not seem to have any particular section of 

 the country that is home to them, but they roam from one 

 part to another, going wherever the feed is good, and where 

 water is not far away, because they must have a drink at 

 least once in every twenty-four hours. It is their nature 

 when feeding or traveling to follow a course that will take 

 them either into or across the wind, as they depend upon 

 the nose more than upon their eyesight to warn them of 

 danger. A band of elk that is found in a certain place at 

 one time, will very likely be twenty or thirty miles away in 

 a few days or weeks. 



With both kinds of deer it is different. They travel 

 about a great deal, but confine their roaming generally to 

 a certain territory, a few miles across, within some part of 

 which they are pretty sure to be found if it is thoroughly 

 hunted. They, too, visit some watering place generally 

 once a day. 



The antelope are different both from the elk and from 

 the deer. During the season when the fawns are brought 

 forth they stick pretty closely to one locality, where they 

 remain in little scattered bands until the fawns are half or 

 two-thirds grown, when they begin to get together in large 

 droves, and soon thereafter journey to the place chosen for 

 winter quarters. The winter feeding grounds consist of a 



