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But deer of any kind either wild or tame may often 

 be followed and overhauled by a dashing runner. 

 And a very ordinary runner can often get ahead of a 

 started deer or flank him so as to get a good shot. 

 This will generally fail. But success attends the effort 

 so often that I do not hesitate to say, always follow a 

 deer under these circumstances: 



ist. Where the deer runs around a hill and you can 

 cut across it or run around the other way, or where 

 he runs over it and you can run around it quickly. 



2d. Where the deer runs into a basin, pocket, or 

 valley and you can make a short-cut to one side or 

 the head of it. If such basin or pocket be up a hill 

 some distance the deer will be quite apt to stop awhile 

 in it. 



3d. Where the deer runs into a long valley with a 

 broad bottom or a narrow one with a good trail at the 

 bottom. In such case run parallel with the ravine, 

 but on the dividing ridge, and keep out of sight except 

 when you peep over. A deer is apt to be in little 

 haste in traversing such valleys. 



4th. In all cases where the ground will allow you to, 

 make a circuit and get ahead of the deer or even 

 abreast with him, but on one side. 



While doing this you must never forget that the 

 deer even when walking moves quite fast, and when 

 he is running you have not a second to spare. Your 

 only hope lies in cutting off distance, and that in the 

 shortest possible time. Hence there are kinds of 

 ground, such as across a wide valley or up a long hill, 

 where you will see at a glance that running would be 

 folly. 



Deer will sometimes stand and let a man at a dis- 

 tance pass by, especially along a road where they know 



