CHAPTER II. 1 



THE ARTIFICIAL. 



Now I hope no one will suppose that, in de- 

 scribing this second branch of my subject the 

 stalking of what are, practically, preserved deer 

 on private property as the "poor parody" of the 

 first I mean that it is, so far as actual and legiti- 

 mate stalking goes, at all easier than the first in 

 its accomplishment ; for though in my own ex- 

 perience I have never found much difference between 

 the two, I believe that, if anything, the second is 

 the more difficult. These deer, being more con- 

 stantly disturbed than they are likely to be in 

 localities more remote from human habitations, 

 being perhaps almost daily accustomed to see men 

 and to hear shots, have their watchful faculties 



