The deer family by Theodore Roosevelt

Author:Theodore Roosevelt
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap

The mule-deer of the southern coast of the Pacific is a special blessing to many because he is at his best in summer, when they can get away from business; whereas at that time still-hunting is almost an impossibility in the rainy lands because of the great density of the cover when the green of summer is at its height. But still-hunting here is then about the same as in the fall, except that the period of seclusion is not as fully over. On the other hand, the venison is at its fattest, while the weather is as charming for camping as one could wish and rarely too warm for morning or evening hunting. One is not driven to lick-watching, fire-hunting, or any of the miserable modes of murder resorted to at that time in the East by those who must have a deer. But one can here enjoy to the full that satisfaction which results from matching one's self with unaided wits against an animal knowing so well how to care for itself, that when you seek it you had better leave in camp everything in the nature of a gillie or a guide or even your best hunting companion, or you will only double the chances of its slipping away unsuspected. And you had better wear soft moccasins as well as in the East, and take every other precaution consistent with covering ground enough. When you have learned him well you will say that the mule-deer is the peer of any game, next to the Virginia, and almost equal to him.

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