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or as it is called still-hunting, in the north—hunting the 
Hart manfully and gallantly with fleet horses, and a cry 
of well-matched and tuneful fox-hounds, with the blythe 
view halloa, and the cheery blast of the key-bugle, with 
the chivalric sportsmen of the sunny south—and last, 
not least, coursing him with a leash of fleet greyhounds, 
or, better yet, a leash of the tall, wire-haired, rough- 
coated deer-hounds of the Scottish Highlands, over the 
wild and verdant prairies of the West. 
The first of these methods is the only one, which the 
rough, craggy, and mountainous character of the forest- 
land frequented by deer in the Northern States, which 
horses cannot for the most part traverse at all, certainly 
not at speed, will allow the hunter to adopt; and if it 
lack the maddening excitement of galloping over bush, 
bank, and scaur, taking bold leaps, and striding irresist- 
ible over ravine or gully, over fallen tree or rough rail- 
fence, with the fierce music of the hounds stirring your 
brain almost to madness, it requires at least so many 
qualitiés of skill and science, such quickness of eyesight, ° 
such instinctive calculation of causes and effects, such 
Indian-like power of following the faintest trail, of 
detecting by the displacement of a yellow leaf, by the 
disordered foliage of a broken bush, or the broken bark 
on a frayed sapling, whither and when, and at what pace 
the object of pursuit has passed that way, that by the 
consciousness of, and confidence in your own self-power, 
~ self-energy, and self-sufficiency to all emergencies, that 
