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deaths, and being unable to see him for whose 

 presence or actions they cannot exactly account, then, 

 having the wind of him and not being able to reconcile 

 their safety with his presence, a deer or a herd of deer 

 will fly for miles. It is impossible for a huntsman 

 or stalker of deer to glean from the book of nature a 

 stronger fact than this to guide him in all future pro- 

 ceedings. If deer, even in a park, and in the venison 

 season, see a man get up into a tree, they will re- 

 member the fact, however long or completely there- 

 after the man may be concealed from their gaze ; 

 and nothing will induce them, till they see him leave 

 that tree, to forget it. 



On the morning to which I refer, M. d'Anchald 

 and myself waited in a ride, while the hounds, with 

 his sons and the man called a huntsman, went up 

 wind of us to commence the draw. As usual, my ear 

 detected the babbling of the French hounds, who 

 went from the hand of Maurice in full cry ; soon 

 after a real cry of French and English hounds 

 came down the wind, but at a great distance, and 

 then it died completely away. The day was wild, 

 with too much wind, so M. d'Anchald and myself 

 took to our horses and separated. I was standing in 

 a ride, listening to the cry which I had recovered, 

 and several times had opportunities of observing 



