284 The Book of Woodcraft 



The side of the deer is marked with a large oval, and over 

 the heart is a smaller one. 

 Bows and arrows only are used to shoot this deer. 

 A pocketful of corn, peas, or other large grain is now 

 needed for scent. The boy who is the deer for the first 

 hunt takes the dummy under his arm and runs off, getting 

 ten minutes' start, or until he comes back and shouts 

 "ready!" He leaves a trail of corn, dropping two or three 

 grains for every yard and making the trail as crooked as he 

 Hkes, playing such tricks as a deer would do to baffle his 

 pursuers. Then he hides the deer in any place he fancies, 

 but not among rocks or on the top of a ridge, because in one 

 case many arrows would be broken, and in the other, lost. 



The hunters now hunt for this 

 deer just as for a real deer, either 

 following the trail or watching the 

 woods ahead; the best hunters 

 combine the two. If at any time 

 the trail is quite lost the one in 

 charge shouts " Lost Trail! " After 

 that the one who finds the trail 

 scores two. Any one giving a false 

 alarm by shouting "Deer" is fined 

 five. 



Thus they go till some one finds 

 the deer. He shouts "Deer J" and scores ten for finding it. 

 The others shout "Second," " Third," etc., in orde'r of seeing 

 it, but they do not score. 



The finder must shoot at the deer with his bow and arrow 

 from the very spot whence he saw it. If he misses, the 

 second hunter may step up five paces, and have his shot. 

 If he misses, the third one goes five, and so on till some one 

 hits the deer, or until the ten-yard limit is reached. If the 

 finder is within ten yards on sighting the deer, and misses 



