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Title: Our big game; a book for sportsmen and nature lovers
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Huntington, Dwight Williams, 1851-
Subjects: Game and game-birds Hunting -- North America
Publisher: New York : C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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steady the game or give it a motion uni-form with the canoe, so that the sportsman (?) mightthe more readily hit it. The whole performance con-sisted of driving the timid little creature with houndsto a lake, where the shooter (I am inclined to drop theword sportsman), with his guide in a canoe, awaited itscoming. It was no difficult matter to overtake it,swimming in the lake, and when the guide droppedhis paddle and had a good hold on the tail, the gunnerproceeded to shoot and shoot until at last he scored ;the murder was done, and the gunner had a trophy toput on his wall. He then was fully equipped to talkabout the hardships of the chase, the astuteness of thedeer, the tremendous difficulties to be overcome ingetting one, and the corresponding value of the head. As I said recently in the Century* there has been arevolution in American field-sports within the last fewyears. It is fortunate that this method of taking deer, *Field Sports of To-day, the Century Magazine, October, 1903.
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THE VIRGINIA DEER 119 and several others which will be referred to later, havegone under in the revolution. The red deer is the most beautiful and graceful ofall the deer. It is the fastest of the smaller deer, andwould excel, I am inclined to believe, in a race withthe large trotters—the moose and elk. Its gait, as Ihave said, is more even and smooth than that of themule-deer and Columbia black-tail deer. It goesrapidly forward, jumping fifteen feet or more at eachbound. The mule-deer are said to jump too high forspeed or grace, but their bounding motion is very at-tractive to me. The Virginia deer vary so much in size that therehave been attempts to create a number of species.They are all one and the same deer to sportsmen, thehabits of the game and the methods of pursuit beingthe same. They are all the same in appearance also,and have the same horns. The smallest variety isfound in Arizona, where the sportsman may shoot adeer so small as to be called a dwarf, on the groundwhere h

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