524 WILD SCENES AND "WILD HUNTERS. 



same dug, " Old Sound," met with a great many adventures 

 in his day. One of these is worth relating. His master, 

 with two other men, were out deer hunting in snow shoes, 

 and on the side of Dug Mountain the dog started three 

 deer. They followed on, and soon killed two of them ; the 

 other, a fine young three-year old buck, showed himself to 

 be, as the old man said, " the cunningest deer I ever see'd !" 

 There is a tremendous ledge on the side of this mountain, 

 which gives it its name, for it is bare of earth and almost 

 perpendicular, and looks as if it had been " dug" down the 

 face. 



The deer was in full view, and commenced climbing up 

 along the edge of this ledge to escape from the dog, who, 

 when he came up, in vain essayed the same feat. After 

 falling back several times, in the effort to follow the deer, 

 the sagacious creature gave it up, and followed along the 

 foot of the ledge to the other side. The deer looked as if he 

 must fall from its airy perch every instant, and they expected 

 to see it dashed to pieces ; but it descended in safety, to be 

 met by the dog on the other side. There the chase was 

 renewed until the old man knew, by the manner of his bark, 

 that the dog had brought it to bay. The three hunters now 

 endeavored to outstrip each other in getting to the deer ; but 

 the others, not being accustomed to snow shoes, got theirs 

 entangled, in their hurry, and fell. The old man came up 

 in sight of the deer alone. 



He had followed the tracks in the snow, and to his great 

 surprise had not heard the dog bark for some time. There 

 stood the deer in the snow, bolt upright, wjth its feet gathered 

 up under it, and with bristles raised as if for a spring, but it 

 remained perfectly still, eyeing the approaching hunter. 



"There's the deer," he said to himself, "but where's my 

 dog ? I can't see him any where !" But the first thing to 

 be done was to shoot the deer — which he did. The animal 

 fell over in the snow, and to his great astonishment, the dog 



