Camping and Hunting in the ShosJione 



sons, one, never to start off at a run, or 

 even a very rapid walk ; the other, never 

 to let a hunter I paid go ahead of me 

 when near game. A slow, steady pace is 

 the pace to tell. Don't stop to get your 

 wind ; second wind will come in time. 

 Let not scenery or any other device of 

 the evil one tempt you to sit down, or 

 look around, or chat, etc. When you are 

 after game that is in sight, first make your 

 stalk, go to the highest point ; the scenery 

 is sure to look, if possible, better still when 

 you have your game at your knees, and 

 frequent pauses, when you are doing the 

 hardest part of the work, do not really 

 rest you, and do waste a great deal of 

 time. 



Perhaps there is nothing so intoxicating 

 as a snow-slide ; to shoot down, down, 

 over the cool, smooth surface for a thou- 

 sand, yes, sometimes two thousand feet at 

 a time, and just enough of risk to make it 

 interesting ; but here, again, a new hand 

 must go slow. My hunter, Frank Chat- 

 field, than whom there is not a better shot, 

 a better mountaineer, a better tracker, or 

 a better man in the mountains, is a terrible 

 fellow down-hill. How he keeps his bal- 

 ance on a snow-field, turning one foot into 

 a toboggan, the other cocked up in front, 



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