This is often heartbreaking work, up hill and
down dale, but all part of the game.
Young and Compton brought low a fine buck by this means on one of our
recent hunts. Seeing a three-pointer a mile distant, we all advanced at
a rapid pace. We reached suitable vantage ground just as the buck
became aware of our presence. At eighty yards Young shot an arrow and
pierced him through the chest. The deer leaped a ravine and took refuge
in a clump of bay trees. We surrounded this cover and waited for his
exit. Since he did not come out after due waiting, Compton cautiously
invaded the wooded area, saw the wounded deer deep in thought; he
finished him with a broad-head through the neck.
[Illustration: WOODCHUCKS GALORE!]
[Illustration: PORCUPINE QUILLS TO DECORATE A QUIVER]
[Illustration: A FATAL ARROW AT 65 YARDS]
[Illustration: THE CHIEF AND ART GET A BUCK AT 85 YARDS]
Not having had any large experience myself in hunting deer with
firearms, the use of the bow presented no great contrast. Mr. Young has
often said, however, that it gave him more pleasure to shoot at a deer
and miss it with an arrow, than to kill all the deer he ever had with a
gun.
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