40 DEER - STALKING. 



wait for a clear blink * before making your near approach. 

 Of course every one knows that it is out of the question, 

 under any circumstances, to attempt advancing on deer 

 unless the wind be favourable ; so all other directions are 

 subject to this. 



In correis and hollows it is quite impossible to know how 

 the wind will blow upon a particular point, unless you have 

 marked every change of wind upon every point of the correi, 



In high wind, deer are always difficult to drive. Should 

 they make a pause, they will in all likelihood turn in the 

 face of a hundred men, and not suffer themselves to be 

 driven further. As the wind becomes stronger the higher 

 you ascend, the deer on the tops of the hills are most 

 difficult to drive. The lowest ground is always the best 

 for driving on a windy day. 



In south and west wind, the deer are far more easily 

 stalked, as the colder and sharper north and east keeps them 

 always moving and beating against it. When fired at, 

 they will go double the distance with an east or north wind. 



Deer will go far more readily to the high passes in the 

 morning, and to the low passes in the evening ; so this 

 ought always to be attended to. 



Never stalk between two herds, if it can be helped ; it is 

 always considered bad stalking. 



Ox -deer, or " heaviers," as the foresters call them, 

 (most likely a corruption from the French hiver,) are 

 wilder than either hart or hind. They often take post 



* Before fishing a sure salmon-cast, do just the reverse. If possible, 

 wait for an obscuring cloud. 



