This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...If the sportsman is skilled enough to follow silently the tracks made in the new snow he will get his deer or moose. If he is unskilled in the art of still hunting he will not. The animal may go for some miles through the thickest part of the woods round about, passing over boggy places, through dense ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ...If the sportsman is skilled enough to follow silently the tracks made in the new snow he will get his deer or moose. If he is unskilled in the art of still hunting he will not. The animal may go for some miles through the thickest part of the woods round about, passing over boggy places, through dense growth of small trees and bushes, over fallen trees, through cedar swamps, everywhere, in fact, but where the hunter would like to have him go, that is, in the more open places. Follow the track he must if he would get the deer, and to follow it noiselessly is an art one does not acquire in a day. The snapping of a twig, the breaking of a 1 dry branch under the snow, a cough or sneeze, any unusual noise, will send the fleet-footed deer or moose off at his best pace, and the hunt for that particular animal is necessarily off. Still hunting as practised in Maine calls for the best traits of the sportsman. Patience and endurance must be his, for though the game is plenty enough to suit the most exacting, nature has endowed it with senses more acute than man's with which to care for itself. Superior sight, smell and hear-ing are on the side of the animal. So too are ways of get-ting through the forest. A deer or moose will pass silently through underbrush or blown down trees (known locally as "blowdowns "), where a man, in making the same passage, would crash along with a noise that to him sounds like that of a heavy freight train. To add to the hunter's feeling Features that he is the noisiest living thing in the forest, the intense of Still stillness of the woods makes all sound appear louder than it Hunting, really is. On still, frosty days, when there is no wind to stir the trees, the very silence is noisy. It roars in the ears...
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