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decidedly of expedition. And yet you have seen and 

 heard nothing. But you are doing something of much 

 more ultimate use to you than seeing or even bagging 

 a deer could possibly be. You are learning at last 

 what it means to "jump a deer." It means generally 

 out of shot, often out of hearing, frequently even out 

 of sight. 



Well, let us move along. The ground is getting 

 higher and more broken and is nearing a creek bot- 

 tom. This bottom is covered with "hard-wood" tim-* 

 ber, and some of it begins to appear upon the ground 

 we are now on. 



But hark! What is that? A sound like the distant 

 hoof of a horse in slow gallop, coming from the side 

 of the hill toward the creek bottom. 



And now see how naturally you will do just the very 

 thing you should not do a thing the beginner is 

 almost certain to do at first if left to himself. You 

 sneak cautiously to the edge of the hill and peer keenly 

 over in the direction from which the sound came. 

 You think you see about everything there is to be 

 seen. And you are about right. For that dark, dim 

 spot in the edge of the timber that faded away with a 

 single whisk into the dark depths of the timber was 

 hardly to be seen by even the keenest eyes until just 

 too late to shoot. 



While you were sneaking so cautiously a deer was 

 getting swiftly away, and stopped in the edge of the 

 heavy timber to look back. He then saw your hat 

 rise slowly over the edge of the hill. As he was 

 standing still and you were moving he had every ad- 

 vantage of you. He saw you at once and left before 

 your eye got around to where he was. But you prob- 

 ably would not have seen him even had you turned 



