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firm mid straight, by fixing your elbow 

 firm to your body. 



So far off even as two hundred yards, 

 you will see the deers' eyes appearing just 

 like two balls of fire. Remember, for cer- 

 tain, that you go directly up the wind, else 

 the deer will smell you, and you never will 

 get near to one. The deer, astonished and 

 surprised at so strange a sight, stands stock- 

 still, terrified, and gazing at this very bright 

 light, and permits you to approach liim very 

 near. We had not been long out, walking 

 our horses very gently, by the side of a 

 swamp, where the deer at night feed ; but 

 we found one. Before we came within one 

 hundred j^ards of him, he ran away. To 

 the best of my recollection, one of our 

 horses snorted. We had not gone a quar- 

 ter of a mile further, ere we found another: 

 the Back-woodsman did not go directly up 

 to him, but took his way about thirty yards 

 on one side of the deer. The animal, I am 

 certain, let him come within less than forty 

 yards of him : he then pulled up his horse, 

 which was going only at a very slow walk. 



