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an animal may be grazing and until one
is actually in camp there is always
the possibility of a shot. Many is the time
I have ended a day with success within
a few hundred yards of my tent simply
because I never ceased to expect due
hope that game might lie in every
bit of cover. Each disappointment,
Each animal missed seems to make
me keener for the next hunt.
There were some of the shots while
filled my mind as we groped our
way back to camp, thru the darkness
of a rainy night. Then young hunter
who had his labby use for he had seen
3 wolves or fired 4 shots at them without
success, matte. Also just at dusk
he had seen a doe & fawn with
two fawns but all his squalling with
a deal of grass between his wants
that not hurt them near enough for
a shot. Old Amurdoche can make
an extraordinarily good imitation
of a young deer's calls rather
familiar and he always uses
it to signal some when we are
beyond each other's sight.
The bucks are beginning to bark now
and the sound is exactly like that
of a dog with a cold. The animals