The bright sun and the breeze were drying the leaves along
the trail. He was exceedingly cautious. The wind being nonetoo favorable, he circled to a position which would enablehim to approach the bedding ground upwind. He was suc-cessful in approaching the place where he had seen fresh bedsthe day before. Here he used every precaution and glassedthe area foot by foot, bush by bush and log by log. He waseasing forward toward a better position when he again heardthe stamp of feet and a snort which came from across a gullysome seventy-five yards to his left. He looked up to see a sightthat was becoming familiar, erect flags and bounding deer.
