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the game is likely to take when it runs, he had better 

 stay back and leave all the fun to his comrade. 

 Men who have hunted for market or for skins for a 

 long time may of course acquire the stolidity of 

 butchers and not excite each other. But the mere 

 amateur had better heed the above advice. 



In moving over pretty level ground two persons 

 should keep abreast: in the woods just far enough 

 apart to keep in sight of each other; in open ground 

 still farther apart. Then if either start a deer it may 

 run across the course of the other one. On rolling 

 ground you may generally keep closer together than 

 on level ground. In going up a valley take opposite 

 sides of the bottom, if the bottom be a hundred or 

 two hundred yards or so in width. But if narrow at 

 the bottom, with high sides, it may be better for 

 one to take the bottom and the other the high ground 

 above or walk pretty well up along the side. Should 

 the bottom of a valley narrow and deep contain 

 trees or brush in which deer are apt to be lying 

 this should always be done, as they will not be 

 apt to start unless some one be in the bottom, 

 and then the one in the bottom may either get no 

 shot at all or a very poor one. Should the valley be 

 both narrow and shallow so as to be a mere gully 

 from which deer will start at sight of a person along 

 the edge, then you should take opposite edges. In 

 going around a hill take opposite sides, whether you 

 go around at the base or at the top. When going 

 along a ridge toward the point each person should 

 take one side of the top just below the level of the 

 top, so that he can see anything running along the 

 sides or top either. In traversing a ridge the other 

 way one had better make a circuit and get upon the 



