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ground is almost certain to contain game: antelope 

 if not too brushy and if wide enough in extent; deer 

 if the gullies are plenty enough and brushy enough. 

 Such ground is often easily traversed with a wagon, 

 and can always be hunted on horseback, there being 

 always some places where a horse can cross the gul- 

 lies. There is little ground more pleasant or easy to 

 hunt on foot for one who can endure a long walk, and 

 still less ground upon which success may be so easily 

 had from so small an average of deer to the square 

 mile. The general principles requisite for success on 

 such ground are about the same as those to be ap- 

 plied in hunting prairie of any kind; about the only 

 difference being in the jumping of deer from the gul- 

 lies. 



The high ground is here the best to keep on during 

 the times when the deer are on foot. We will there- 

 fore take this long ridge that commands a view of 

 two gullies with their adjacent slopes of several hun- 

 dred yards each. But while inspecting these slopes 

 do not neglect the top of the ridge ahead of you, and 

 pay strict attention to the edges of every gully and 

 every clump of brush. For while the deer generally lie 

 in the gullies by day and get a large part of their food 

 from the bushes they contain, yet in the morning and 

 at evening they are more apt to be a few yards from 

 the edge, or up the slopes around some bush, or on 

 the tops of the long ridges. And sometimes in hot 

 weather, and generally in cold weather, they will lie 

 during the day in the occasional bushes found over 

 the slopes or on the ridges. And in very cold weather 

 they will generally lie out in the low open brush in 

 the sun. 



This morning we will take this particular ridge be- 



