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He knew that deer pay far more attention to moving objectsthan they do to ones that are stationary. He knew that a deer'ssight is very sensitive and can very readily detect unnaturalmovements. He had been schooled in the art of being stillwhen on a watch. He knew that the state of being still, as ap-plied to situations like this, was to make no movement; itdid not permit squirming around, quick movements of thehead, swift movements of the arms or shifting the body; itmeant being still in the manner that a stump is still. He re-membered reading a book on deer in which the author claimedthat a deer can see a person bat his eye at thirty feet. Herealized that, in this blind, it probably was not necessary toexercise such extreme caution, but he decided it was gooddiscipline and tried his best to be still. |
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