. Guns and gunning. nd much more, he should know. Hunting in the open is a more serious ease with which a man can make terrible mis-takes in the field, is terrifying. In country nearcivilization, even an experienced man must use thegreatest caution, lest he mistake a human being forgame. A true story, told me by the chief actor in whatnearly proved to be a tragedy, shows how liable weall are to this mistake. Two experienced huntersleft camp early one morning to hunt deer. Onewent to due south, the other to due north. Theone who went south, immediately found a freshbucks track,
. Guns and gunning. nd much more, he should know. Hunting in the open is a more serious ease with which a man can make terrible mis-takes in the field, is terrifying. In country nearcivilization, even an experienced man must use thegreatest caution, lest he mistake a human being forgame. A true story, told me by the chief actor in whatnearly proved to be a tragedy, shows how liable weall are to this mistake. Two experienced huntersleft camp early one morning to hunt deer. Onewent to due south, the other to due north. Theone who went south, immediately found a freshbucks track, which led him in a large circle to thenorth. When about four miles to the north of thecamp, he found he had lost his knife, and back-tracked to the place where he thought he haddropped it. The place was a smallthicket, and he got on his hands andknees, and followed his trail, lookingfor the knife in the soft snow. Thehunter who had gone north, orig-inally, travelled very slowly. Atlast he topped a small ridge and 79. looked over. In a patch of brush a hundred yardsaway, he saw a brown object, shaped Hke a deer,moving slowly through the brush. Further on hesaw fresh tracks, and his hunters knowledge toldhim that the brown object was a young buck trackinga small band of his own kind. The hunter was asplendid marksman, and drew a bead on the deershead, and was about to press the trigger, whensomething about the deers movements made himstop. At the moment the deer stood up. It washis friend, and he had just found his knife.
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