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ground be too noisy to still-hunt and he must have 

 a deer. 



How far this plan would work with antelope if fol- 

 lowed on horseback I cannot say. All the antelope it 

 has been my lot to meet were very wild, made nearly 

 half a day's journey at the first run, and would prob- 

 ably have completed the day with another run if I had 

 been foolish enough to follow them. They have far 

 more endurance than a deer. 



All such modes of hunting as watching water- 

 holes, salt-licks, turnip-patches, pine-choppings, etc., 

 although literally ^////-hunting, I pass over as involving 

 neither knowledge nor skill, except to keep still, hide 

 in a tree or in a hole in the ground, or lie flat on the 

 leeward side to see the deer when it comes, and avoid 

 overshooting it; a thing we will consider under the 

 head of shooting. 



