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All these turnings the young hunter retraced with the greatest care and patience. In this he showed his judgment and his knowledge of hunter-craft; for, had he grown impatient and taken a wider range to find the trail, he might have fallen upon his last-made tracks, and thus have brought himself into a regular maze.
In all matters of hunter-craft, his intelligence, or instinct you might almost call it, is quite a match for the more highly-developed mind of the Caucasian. This arises, no doubt, from the keen and frequent exercise of those particular faculties, keen and frequent, because his very existence often depends on their successful employment.
I lay for several minutes, thinking over the different tricks known in hunter-craft for taking the antelope. Should I imitate their call? Should I hoist my handkerchief, and try to lure them up? I saw that they were too shy; for, at short intervals, they threw up their graceful heads and looked inquiringly around them. I remembered the red blanket on my saddle.
In all matters of hunter-craft, his intelligence, or instinct you might almost call it, is quite a match for the more highly developed mind of the Caucasian. This arises, no doubt, from the keen and frequent exercise of those particular faculties, keen and frequent, because his very existence often depends on their successful employment.
The knife was not worth twopence of sterling money, but it made `Old Foxey' my best friend; and all his `hunter-craft' the gatherings of about sixty winters became mine. "I had not yet been inducted into the mystery of `rat-catching, but the season for that `noble' sport at length arrived, and the Indian hunter invited me to join him in a muskrat hunt.
"Dick, however, was better acquainted with its uses in that respect; and his hunter-craft soon manifested itself. "Drawing his knife from its sheath, he cut one of the joints from the stem of the heracleum, about six inches in length. This he commenced fashioning somewhat after the manner of a penny-trumpet.
Impounding the sage hare is one of the master strokes of their hunter-craft, and forms a source of employment to them for a considerable portion of the year. Our four trappers, then, remembering the Indian mode of capturing these creatures put it in execution to some advantage, and were soon able to satisfy their hunger.
The eyes of Redwood were turned admiringly on the speaker, and even old Ike could not help acknowledging his superior hunter-craft. "Mister," he muttered, "I guess you'd make a darned fust-rate mountain-man. He's a gone Injun when you look through sights." All of us were examining the huge carcass of the bear one of the largest size. "Your sure it's no grizzly?" inquired the doctor.
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