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ground on the other side, you had better walk on the 

 side toward the sun even though it be the windward 

 side and be the most difficult one upon which to move 

 quietly. This principle holds with more or less force 

 in all cases where your game will be likely to run 

 toward the sun, especially if up hill. 



But there is another reason quite as strong which 

 is of immense advantage in such kinds of open ground 

 as prairie, table-lands, etc., where you often see deer 

 at a long distance. If you have the sun on your own 

 back and full on a deer's coat, he will strike your eye 

 twice as far or twice as quickly as if the case were re- 

 versed. When the sun is the other way you may 

 sometimes see at a long distance the sheen as the sun 

 glances from the hair on a deer's back. But as a rule, 

 the practical effect of having the sun beyond the deer 

 is to make the deer stand in shade. You need scarcely 

 be told that this makes him much harder to see, aside 

 from the dazzling effect of the sun upon your eyes. 

 And when you are in the sun and the deer has it be- 

 hind him, it is as much easier for him to see you as it 

 is easier for you to see him when you have the sun on 

 your back and it is shining full upon his jacket. And 

 there is so much sunshine in these old choppings or 

 slashes that you should give this point all the at- 

 tention possibly consistent with a due regard to the 

 others. 



For an hour you toil through the bristly beard of 

 the old clearing, picking your way through old 

 logging-roads or other open places, when you come to 

 another series of tracks made by plunging hoofs and 

 ten or fifteen feet apart. Examination shows that a 

 doe and two full-grown fawns have just vacated a bit 

 of brush among some old logs in a manner savoring 



