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flesh may be badly bloodshot or the contents of the 

 intestines worked all through the interior by a chase. 

 But if a deer is only leg-broken, as a rule the sooner 

 you let out your dog the better, for it is likely to be a 

 long chase, and the deer should have as little start as 

 possible. 



On falling snow when you have no dog, and there 

 is danger of the track getting covered or confused 

 with other tracks, you may perhaps overtake and get 

 another shot at a deer by a stern-chase yourself. This 

 is a job, however, which I would recommend you to 

 sublet before you commence, as it is very exhausting 

 and vexatious. A wounded deer, if not too badly 

 hurt, will watch back, and will be quite sure to see 

 you first, and if kept going can run well. 



It is far better, even in falling snow, to wait a 

 little while, and when you get in sight of a place 

 where the cripple is likely to stop go around and 

 come in from one side or behind, as in tracking a 

 wild well one. 



I once saw a big strong man who was hunting 

 quails beside me drop like a sledge-struck ox at the 

 report of a comrade's gun some ninety yards behind 

 us in the brush, clap his hand to his head, and ex- 

 claim in agony, " O my God!" He still lives, in 

 Monmouth County, New Jersey; for the only wound 

 we could find on him was a grain of No. 8 shot in 

 the lobe of one ear, which our comrade who did the 

 mischief, now a prominent lawyer in Jersey City, 

 picked out with the point of his pen-knife. Other 

 men shot half to pieces have fought like tigers or run 

 like deer a long while before they fairly knew they 

 were hit. Individuals among deer and antelope dif- 

 fer about the same way in vitality. I have seen a big 



