DEER. 
DEER hunting is by no means such easy work as one who has not 
tried it might imagine. Of course, deer are so numerous in some 
localities that any one who can shoot straight can hardly fail to kill 
one in a day’s hunt; but such places are becoming more rare year 
by year. Not so very long ago it was no uncommon sight to see 
eight or ten deer feeding on a prairie at one time, but such sights 
are rare nowadays. 
Deer are usually hunted in one of three ways (fire hunting not 
included, the latter being rarely indulged in by a true sportsman), 
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