144 STALKING. 



or heedless of the smell of the human 

 race ; or perhaps they may not be gifted 

 with the sense of smell in the same degree 

 as they are with those of sight and hearing. 

 It certainly appears to be an unpardonable 

 infringement of the rules of stalking to 

 approach a wary animal on the wind ; but 

 in several years' experience, we never had 

 any occasion to believe, that we had alarmed 

 burrell by approaching them with the wind 

 blowing towards them ; of course supposing 

 the advance to be made as noiselessly as 

 possible ; for undoubtedly should any noise 

 be made by speaking, or loosening stones 

 with the feet, a sound would be carried by 

 the wind to a sharp-eared animal like the 

 burrell, which would be unheard from 

 another direction, and although as already 

 mentioned, noise does not disturb them 

 much, it will put them on the alert, and 

 there would then be a greater probability 

 of your being seen. 



After the first shot you may generally 

 fire all your barrels, and often reload and 



