Trail and Camp-Fire 



killed in Warren County showed a height of 

 4 feet 3 inches over the withers, with a length 

 from nose to tip of tail of 9 feet 7 inches." 



For every reason it is important to give 

 proper protection to these animals, whose 

 grace and beauty make them of interest to all 

 who visit the woods, and whose pursuit in fair 

 chase gives keen pleasure to the sportsman. 



Many years ago deer were shot when they 

 came to the salt licks ; but a wise law long 

 since prohibited this, as well as the use of 

 traps. Two objectionable methods of killing 

 deer were, however, still permitted by law, 

 and generally practiced throughout the Adi- 

 rondacks when the new Constitution went into 

 effect. One was jacking, and the other was 

 driving the deer with hounds to deep water, 

 and shooting them while swimming. In jack- 

 ing, the hunter is paddled silently along the 

 edge of a lake, with a bright light in the bow 

 of the boat or fastened to his hat ; a deer, fas- 

 cinated by the light, stands watching it, until a 

 load of buckshot is fired in the direction of 

 the shining eyes of the deer, which, as a rule, 

 are the only parts of the animal which can be 

 distinguished. Reliable authorities have esti- 

 mated, that only one in four of the deer thus 



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