OCTOBER, 1917 
FOREST AND STREAM 
493 
YOUR SKILL AGAINST 
HIS CUNNING 
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blood trail may disappear almost entirely, 
as blood congeals quickly under the kindly 
ministrations of Mother Nature; she has 
already begun first-aid treatment to her 
afflicted. You will be lucky if at a gulch 
crossing or on the trunk or limb of a fallen 
tree you find the tell-tale stain that gives 
you the much needed assurance that you 
are still on the right track. 
There are several peculiarities of a 
wounded deer that help betray his track to 
the experienced trailer, but they are not 
always in evidence. For instance, a wound¬ 
ed deer will almost invariably run down 
hill, while the natural impulse of the well 
deer is to climb higher. When confront¬ 
ed with an obstacle, even a slight one, a 
wounded deer will always turn down, 
while a well one will clear it with a bound 
or turn upwards to avoid it. From a 
beaten trail a wounded deer will frequently 
turn at right angles to go straight down 
and then take up a path below. The one 
exception to the downward tendency is 
the supreme effort to baffle pursuit when 
a wounded buck realizes that his strength 
is rapidly failing. Seeming to gather all 
the nerve and muscle strength of his re¬ 
maining vitality, he chooses some steep 
hill, and disregarding all trails, heads up 
through the thickest brush, directly for the 
top. It is a desperate effort, that records 
as plain as day the last chapter of his de¬ 
fense. On top of the hill you will find him 
exhausted, almost helpless; and only a 
bungling approach can force him to re¬ 
newed flight. 
To some, especially the uninitiated, all 
this may seem to lack the dash and noise 
and thrill that is the soul of a hunting 
lure. But the nimrod who pits his skill 
against a wary trout’s, to tempt him from 
the bottom of some deep pool, will not 
reckon the half-hour spent if at last the 
speckled beauty comes fluttering to his 
hand. That catch will be counted his day’s 
achievement and prized above the score of 
others taken with easier casts. And every 
moment of his time is so tense and all-ab¬ 
sorbing that no thought of health or home 
or office can ever shadow the spirits of 
a hunter who, unaided, pits his skill against 
wary eame in its native haunts.’ 
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