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But running down hill a deer is not apt to stop. And 

 running on a level he is less likely to stop than when 

 running up hill, but more likely to stop than when 

 running down hill. All these principles will, however, 

 be modified by the question whether the deer knows 

 what he is running from. If he has smelt you or seen 

 you plainly he is far less apt to stop on any kind of 

 ground ; but if he has run only from the noise you 

 make he is more likely to stop. 



In the last chapter we saw how a deer may be ap- 

 proached in the open field of his vision. In that case, 

 however, he did not see you, or at least noticed noth- 

 ing suspicious; as, if he saw you at all, he did not know 

 you from a stump. 



There is one case, however, in which a deer may be 

 approached while looking directly at you and perhaps 

 suspecting what you are. There are some deer so 

 tame that you may do this even on open ground for a 

 short distance; but I do not refer to such, and no con- 

 clusions should be drawn from such cases. I refer to 

 deer pretty wild; though, as a rule, it can be done only 

 with tame ones. 



Here, for instance, is a big buck a hundred and fifty 

 yards or more away. He is standing in brush nearly 

 shoulder-high; you can see only his horns and ears, 

 and they are turned directly toward you. It is plain 

 that he has seen you first and is ready to go at any 

 instant. 



You know the difficulty of hitting the head at that 

 distance; you know the folly of trying to hit his body 

 by guesswork; and you also know he will not tarry 

 long. Now the same brush that conceals his body 

 also conceals the greater part of yours this being 

 supposed to be brushy open ground, the only place 



