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comes into view. The buck turns his head and looks back-ward sniffing the air as if suspecting danger. It is in thisinstance that Henry looses a broadhead that results in thedeath of the buck.

Comment. These boys knew how to hunt and, by teamingup and using their heads, they entered unfamiliar terrain,succeeded in locating game, and bagged a trophy before noon.If either of them had been hunting alone, that hunter prob-ably would not have been so successful.

DRIVES

As long as men have hunted they have made drives. TheNeanderthal boys may have started it; Cro-Magnon man prob-ably improved the technique; our own Indians had the drivewell in hand; our forefathers added dogs, having got the ideafrom Europe; now, the modern hunter still maintains thesetraditions with more finesses but minus the hounds.

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