. The Big game of North America [microform] : its habits, habitat, haunts, and charcteristics : how, when, and where to hunt it. Hunting; Hunting; Big game hunting; Big game hunting; Chasse; Chasse; Chasse au gros gibier; Chasse au gros gibier. 184 BIG GAME OF NORTH AMKRICA. of time. Yet apparently nothing had fallen, and there was a painful dearth of evidence that anything had been hit. Tak- ing first the tracks of the fawns, we found them leading away in long jumps, tearing up the ground with every leg intact. It seemed almost useless to go to look for the others; but we went, more from soun
. The Big game of North America [microform] : its habits, habitat, haunts, and charcteristics : how, when, and where to hunt it. Hunting; Hunting; Big game hunting; Big game hunting; Chasse; Chasse; Chasse au gros gibier; Chasse au gros gibier. 184 BIG GAME OF NORTH AMKRICA. of time. Yet apparently nothing had fallen, and there was a painful dearth of evidence that anything had been hit. Tak- ing first the tracks of the fawns, we found them leading away in long jumps, tearing up the ground with every leg intact. It seemed almost useless to go to look for the others; but we went, more from sound principle than fi'om hope. Within ten yards of where we had fired at the first Deer, lay a three- year-old buck, dead, shot through the shoulder. And now the question arose, had we been shooting at only one during the first part of the programme, or had there l)een two Deer ? A little circling around revealed a track leading away in full run, and following it about a hundred yards, we found another three year-old, dead, with two bullets in him. Tlie second had evidently risen almost into the place vacated by the first one, and the first was the last one we found. 'I !. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Shields, G. O. (George Oliver), 1846-1925; Caton, John Dean, 1812-1895. Chicago; New York : Rand, McNally
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