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such, but comes under one of three heads,—“ stalking,” 
which is here generally termed still-hunting, where the 
animal is followed by his sign, left on the soil, or on the 
trees and coppice which he may have frayed, by the aid 
of the eye and experience in woodcraft and the habits of 
the quarry alone, without the assistance of hounds— 
“stable-stand,” where the sportsman, taking his station at 
the intersection of deer-paths, at a haunted salt-lick, or at 
a well-ascertained watering place, awaits the voluntary 
advent of the animal, when he shall be impelled to move 
by the solicitation of his own instincts—or, lastly, “ dog- 
draw,” where, posting himself, as before, in such place ag 
he judges likely to be passed by the fugitive, the shooter 
expects its coming when driven by slow hounds, who have 
drawn for it, and aroused it from its lair, under the 
guidance of his servants or companions. 
The last terms “ dog-draw ” and “ stable-stand,” have 
long ceased to be sporting words in England, those 
methods of taking game having long fallen into disuse as 
sport; and the latter being practised rarely by the park- 
keeper, only in killing the half-tame fallow deer for the 
table—an animal, which is no more looked to for sport, or 
regarded as a beast of chase, than a south-down sheep, or 
a fatted calf. 
They were, however, common in the olden time, when 
a large portion of Great Britain was still covered with the 
natural forest, in which the wild animals roamed nearly 
unmolested, preserved by rigorous forest statutes, and 
obtainable only as game for the table, by shooting them, 
in one of the two methods described, with the cross-bow, 
