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animals which it is desirable to stalk, up wind. If you 
attempt to go down wind on them, their unerring scent 
will frustrate your every endeavor, and render it impossi- 
ble to approach within half a mile, much less within gun- 
shot of the quarry. It is wise also to stalk game so far 
as it is possible, owing to the state of the wind, with the 
sun on your back and in their eyes. 
Wild fowl on the water are more easily stalked, where 
the ground will allow it, from below upward, and mountain- 
dwelling animals from above downward, owing to the fact 
that these are apt to be expectant, under ordinary circum- 
stances, of enemies coming upon them from higher, those 
from lower ground. 
Deer are killed by three different methods: driving 
with hounds to guns posted at such passes as the hunted 
animals are likely to make for when afoot before dogs; 
pursuing on horseback, across country, with packs of 
hounds, having it in view to shoot them with buck-shot, 
whenever the rider can approach them nearly enough to 
do so; and still-hunting, or stalking them in the forest, or 
on the plains, without the aid of dogs, relying on the eye 
and intelligence of the sportsman alone. 
Fire-hunting from canoes by night, and lying in am- 
bush at some solitary drinking-place or salt-lick, I cannot 
regard as legitimate sporting, though both are undenia- 
ble ways of getting venison, when one happens to be in 
want of it; because I conceive there is no sport, where 
there is no skill exhibited, no doubt of saccess, and no 
chance of escape left to the quarry either by flight or 
‘resistance. 
