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chase for a mile or so; but the snow was deep, and the deer 

 outran both dogs and horses. These hounds were also 

 used to chase prairie wolves, which were plentiful, and 

 one of them could kill a wolf without help. Another 

 time, I was out on the prairie with my brother, in a sleigh, 

 when a deer came in sight. 



My brother unharnessed his horse, put on a saddle, 

 took a gun, and started in pursuit, leaving me on the 

 boundless prairie. He returned in half an hour, having 

 killed the buck, which we picked up. We had a mare 

 so well trained that we could shoot off of her back, or 

 leave her on the prairie while we went to shoot, and she 

 would follow us about, grazing as she went. 



About thirty miles north of Chicago is the town of 

 Lake -Forest, with a large population of wealthy Chicago 

 men. This, in 1840, w T as a region of heavily wooded 

 ravines, where deer were abundant. The only white 

 inhabitant was an old hunter by the name of Clark 

 "Indian Clark," he was called, to distinguish him from 

 others of the same name. He lived in a log cabin, and 

 subsisted on the proceeds of the chase. The deer he called 

 his cattle, and would call on any brother who was fond 

 of deer-hunting, when he came to town, with this invi- 

 tation: "Doctor, my cattle are getting fat; won't you 

 come out and kill a few?" which suggestion was seldom 

 refused. 



My first deer-hunt was, as I remember, w r ith J. E. 



M , in the wooded country west of Fox River. We 



were driving through a grove in McHenry County, and 

 were descending into a little valley, when up sprang a 

 dozen deer from the long grass all around us. My com- 

 panion, always ready, quickly raised his rifle, and 

 brought down a fine buck; but I was so much astonished 

 at the unaccustomed sight, that I forgot my gun, and sat 

 gazing at the retreating herd. We marked where they 



