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ing the wind of him (or certainly not allowing him to have 
it from us,) and come upon him from another quarter, and 
get a shot whilst he is looking earnestly toward our last 
whereabouts. 
Now we will not miss looking such chances carefully over, 
if he has not had the wind of us, for he will stop most always 
in some thicker chance, and much prefers high knolls when he 
can look over the ground. If not seeing him at first we 
should get a good position behind a tree large enough to hide 
us and wait and watch a little, listening too, forif a brave 
buck and he sees us, he is often now stamping his foot in 
anger at being approached. And again at times he may take 
quite a run, and sometimes circles around himself, to see, or 
smell for us. Even after the second or third wild jumping, 
their curiosity has been known to often be the death of them. 
But if he once gets a good sniff of you from the breeze he 
will telegraph this to you by blowing his whistle, and this 
always means a good long run away and we must seek 
another’s track. 
He is on foot by daybreak, and feeding from nine to twelve, 
when he most always lies down to sleep awhile in the warmest 
part of the day, and takes a sunny chance on the leeward side 
of a thicket, or a sunny knoll where he will lie with his eye 
on his tracks at the first, as if watching for danger from 
something following them. Coming to such a chance, if 
tracking over snow, you sometimes can read his programme 
quite a piece ahead of you by his tracks, as he always stops a 
moment, looks back, and taking a step or two each way, will 
look to all the points of the compass to see if any danger lurks 
near his ruminating chance, sometimes stepping back on his 
tracks a rod or two to make doubly sure of his safety before 
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