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watching, wait to see if there is danger of further 

 pursuit. 



You may always perceive if your shot has told by 

 observing the tail of the particular animal fired at. 

 Fallow deer always carry their tail in the air as they 

 scamper along unscathed over the ground, but if 

 wounded it will invariably be seen hanging downward. 



As was observed above, fallow deer are very quick- 

 sighted ; while grazing, however, it would seem as if 

 they heard less quickly than at other times. For it is 

 often astonishing, if the wind be good, how near they 

 may then be approached without their perceiving 

 you. 



It is not a little strange that when running away 

 from real or fancied danger, a sudden sharp whistle 

 will at once make them halt. This characteristic they 

 have in common with chamois ; these, when bounding 

 over the rocks so as to make it impossible to get a shot, 

 a quick abrupt cry will almost certainly cause to stop 

 and look round; and though pretty far, perhaps, you 

 now may fire, as the object aimed at is for a moment 

 not in motion. 



When fallow deer are unable to make out what the 

 object or the sound is that disquiets them, there is no 

 animal in which the signs of uneasiness are so evident. 

 There is positive nervousness in their manner and in 

 their disturbed gaze and restlessness : there is nervous- 



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