FOLLOWING 
THE DEER^ 
more; found the quarry on a ridge 
deep in the woods, and followed — 
more by good luck than by good 
management — till, late in the after- ^^/<y^^^'^'^^^ 
noon, 1 saw the buck with two 
smaller deer standing far away on 
a half-cleared hillside, quietly watch- 
ing a wide stretch of country below. 
Beyond them the ridge narrowed 
gradually to a long neck, ending in 
a high open bluff above the river. 
There I tried my last hunters 
dodge, which was to approach craft- 
ily to where the deer were hiding 
in dense thickets and rush straight 
at them, knowing they must either 
break away down the open hillside, 
and so give me a running shot, or 
