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CHAPTER XXXIV. 



MOCCASINS, BUCKSKIN, ETC. ADVICE. CONCLUSION. 



THERE is a large amount of useful lore about wood- 

 craft, camping, fitting out, etc. etc. etc., which must 

 necessarily be omitted from such a work as this, espe- 

 cially as it can be found elsewhere. I therefore con- 

 fine myself entirely to such few points as are either 

 not considered in other works that I have seen or else 

 are so generally treated as to be of little use. 



White clothes are of little use for hunting wild 

 deer except upon open ground with snow, and even 

 then the face and rifle should be concealed as much 

 as possible. In timber your motion across tree-trunks 

 is caught by the deer's eye so quickly that you can 

 relax no caution even with the whitest outfit you can 

 get. Gray or brown, according to the color of your 

 general background, is better for general use. 



Clothes should not be stiff or harsh so as to make a 

 noise against brush, and the coat should have no 

 skirts or tail. Jackets made by cutting off the lower 

 six inches of woolen shirts, slitting up the front and 

 adding two or three buttons, are very good things to 

 wear. Two or three may be put on for cold weather 

 and fastened at the bottom with the cartridge-belt. 

 An extra one may be tucked into the belt behind. A 

 linen jacket over two or three of these will shed rain 

 about as long as anything and stop considerable 

 wind. 



