The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1892-08-06
DEER HUNTING.
Meeting Five ut One Tims-Not AFRAID Of
Hounds.

Meeting Five at One Time-Not Afraid Of
Hounds.
To discover the approach OF danger
deer depend on their sense OF smell.
A single hunter. II skillful. when there
are two paths or runways will walk
into the forest on one OF them. then
take his stand near the other In order
to shoot tho deer before his hound.
One day saw band OF Ave thorough
" frightened deer strike the track
where q hunter had passed but a
short time before They all stopped
when they reached the track as sud
denly as II their necks were just then
broken. After smiling the air few
seconds, they all set of again. but In
an opposite direction to that taken by
the hunter.
One Sunday morning found me Ia
lumber camp on the Rabbit river In
Michigan. writes correspondent OF
Forest and Stream, where ! must
stay all day. After breakfast strolled
up one OF the log roads and saw where
five deer had crossed on their way to
some hardwood bottom land border
ing on the river. followed on their
trail intending to find them and spend
an hour or two In their company.
l found them scattered out over an
acre OF ground. but all in sight and
browsing. The one nearest to me-
and In no cover. soon saw mo. AT
first he only looked at me when / was
sitting down on the snow and covered
my face with my hand. He looked at
me sharp and often, but continued to
browse. When they were busy feed
ing managed to approach. The wind
blew from them toward me. Some
times / whistled. as II calling a dog.
They all looked at me. but my face
was covered and I was sitting on the
snow.
After a while the deer furtherest TO
my right had got nearly in my rear.
when he gave big snort and ran
with apparent alarm. Tho Others.
startled by his warning snort ran
also but only few rods After u
quarter OF an hour Of standing mo-
tionless. they slowly made their way
back and began again TO browse. l con-
tinued to approach as had chance
| had got within few rods OF one oil
them. just then he stepped behind q
big pine and stepped forward briskly
and made jump for his hind leg.
l missed it by an inch. The deer was
too much frightened to jump more
than q length at one spring. until
had got off some rods, and then made
what might be called fast time. The
others ran at the same time and l
saw my friends no moro.
From the experience OF a tolerably
long lifetime in the woods am sat
isfied that the Virginia deer was in
tended by nature TO run before deer
hound. lie is not afraid OF the hound.
and has no reason to be. But wolves.
cur dogs and cross-breeds are his ter
ror l have seen deer pass me in
the woods. bleating most piteously at
every jump. A black cur dog was
only few yards behind. have seen
deer running before stag hound
and Looping along as happily as fox in
the same situation, stopping at the top
OF every considerable hill and waiting
for the hound to come up. When
tired the deer will go to water, or II
buck. may stop and beat of the
hound l have seen buck beat four
as good hounds as ever were in the
United States.
The deer aftor days run goe;
back at night to the bed he was
started from in the morning; and
have started the same buck with my
hound from the same bed several
times. And the testimony OF my
friends Is to the same fact