. The animals of North America [microform]. Zoology; Mammals; Zoologie; Mammifères. 92 Ar^IMALS OF NORTH AMERICA. " able numbers wherever the destruction of the forests, and the -wanton rapacity of man, liave {i^^^Btt^^ ^'^^ caused its extinction. In the Mf^^^ .* State of Maine and in Canada it abounds in the great evergreen for- ests, its worst enemy tliore being the wolf, as there isperhajjs less of the sporting ar lor to be found hi that sec- tion. The loggers and lumbermen there, may occasionally filch time to hunt, by torchlight, a deer or two, or get u]) a hunt for a bet—
. The animals of North America [microform]. Zoology; Mammals; Zoologie; Mammifères. 92 Ar^IMALS OF NORTH AMERICA. " able numbers wherever the destruction of the forests, and the -wanton rapacity of man, liave {i^^^Btt^^ ^'^^ caused its extinction. In the Mf^^^ .* State of Maine and in Canada it abounds in the great evergreen for- ests, its worst enemy tliore being the wolf, as there isperhajjs less of the sporting ar lor to be found hi that sec- tion. The loggers and lumbermen there, may occasionally filch time to hunt, by torchlight, a deer or two, or get u]) a hunt for a bet—in which, by the way, everything tha": flies or runs, from an owl to a skunk, is brought to bag promiscuously— but hunting, proper and scientific, there is little or none. " To get deer-hunting hi anything like perfection," says Frank Forrester, " we must go into Virginia, the Carolinas, Louisiana, and Mississippi, where the gentlemen of the land, not pent up in cities, but dwelling upon their estates, fear- lessly galloping through bush, through briar, taking bold leaps at fallen trees and over deep bayous in the forest lands, ride as fearlessly and desperately for the first blood as any coimtry English ; The Indians say, and it has also been verified l)y hunters, that the deer has a great aversion to snakes, especially the rattlesnake, and to destroy them it makes a bound into the air, alighting on the snake with all four feet brought together, repeating it till the reptile is destroyed. The stomach of the deer, with its half digested contents, is a very favorite dish with the Indians, especially when they feed on mosses and buds, r,nd even Europeans have not objected to it. Captain Lyon says he found it to " resemble a salad of sorrel and radishes;" and Hearne says it possesses such an agreeable taste that were it not for prejudice, it would be considered a dainty. De Kay says it has often been a wonder that while so many horns
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