242 THE STILL-HUNTER. 



CHAPTER XXII. 



SPECIAL MODES OF HUNTING. THE COW-BELL AND 

 TIRING DOWN DEER. 



As before stated, the art of still-hunting consists 

 not in the use of tricks or artifices, but in the ready 

 and skillful application of sound common-sense prin- 

 ciples. 



There are, however, a few modes in which deer and 

 antelope may be hunted that are special and approach * 

 the nature of tricks. Some of these, such as luring 

 antelope within shot by a red flag or kicking up the 

 foot behind one occasionally when stretched upon the 

 ground, thus taking advantage of their curiosity, etc., 

 have already been so fully and frequently described 

 by other writers that for the sake of brevity I will omit 

 them and confine myself to two modes which, so far as 

 I can remember, have never been written about be- 

 fore. Though both are in fact noisy hunting, yet, be- 

 ing the outgeneraling of a deer by a single person, 

 properly belong to still-hunting. The first is the use 

 of the cow-bell. 



In many parts of our country the deer are used to 

 the sound of the cow-bell during the spring, summer, 

 and autumn, and wherever belled cattle run those 

 deer that have been accustomed to seeing the cattle 

 and hearing the bell at the same time, so as to associ- 

 ate the two, will be little afraid of the \)t\\, provided 

 they are not hunted in this way, Therefore, when the 



