212 THE STILL-HUNTED. 



you go in and thrash around inside for a few minutes. 

 When tired and perspiring you come out, and about 

 the first thing you find is a series of long jumps on 

 ground you passed directly over when you made your 

 circuit. They were skulking and slipped out of one 

 side while you were tearing around in brush so high 

 and thick that you could not have hit one if you had 

 seen a dozen deer running. 



Now only a hundred yards away is a knoll that com- 

 mands a view of the whole of this place. And after you 

 felt quite certain they were there, and when you know 

 the trick of skulking as well as you do, why in the 

 world could you not go there and sit them out? Want 

 of patience. That is all. 



This sitting out a deer and other forms of patience 

 will suggest themselves in many other cases, such as 

 where a fresh trail of several deer divides up and the 

 individual trails begin to wander and straggle on 

 ground suitable for lying down and there is a good 

 point to sit on; especially when it is near evening and 

 the ground is bad for getting a shot at a deer when 

 started. 



On such open ground as this it is often necessary 

 to traverse a great deal of ground; and as deer in such 

 open places will not remain on foot so long when the 

 sun is hot as they will in the woods, it may, in warm 

 weather especially, be necessary to move fast. As 

 noise is here of less consequence than elsewhere one 

 may walk quite fast. But the keenness of sight must 

 be doubled in consequence. In cold weather deer will 

 remain on foot a longtime on such ground; longer in 

 the morning than in the afternoon, and will be found 

 mainly along the sunny slopes and hollows. 



To jump deer upon such ground is often easy. It 



