The Adirondack Deer Law 



reward for all his labors, and if his efforts to 

 come upon a deer by still-hunting are crowned 

 with success, he may reasonably feel the most 

 intense satisfaction. 



In the deer the sense of smell and hearing 

 are remarkably developed. A tree may fall, 

 making the mountain side re-echo as it crashes 

 to the ground, and the deer is undisturbed ; 

 but the careless footstep which breaks a twig 

 or snaps a branch puts him instantly on guard 

 against the approaching enemy, and if the 

 hunter moves as noiselessly as the falling 

 snow, he is doomed to failure if he approaches 

 the deer down the wind. Sometimes the 

 hunter will come upon a deer browsing, with- 

 out having previously tracked it, and his eye- 

 sight must be keen to distinguish the game 

 among the trees before it is alarmed and dis- 

 appears. When the track is followed, it is 

 well to do as Mr. Barringer, in his interesting 

 article, " Dog Sledging in the North," in the 

 "Book of the Boone and Crockett Club," says 

 the Indians do in following moose leave the 

 track continually in semicircles down wind. 



All day Monday I traveled up hill and 

 down, without seeing track or trace of deer, 

 but with much pleasurable discourse with the 



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