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Tribe Activities 5X covered with open burlap. A few touches ol white and black make it very realistic. If time does not admit of a well-finished deer, one can be made of a sack stuffed with hay, decorated at one end with a smaller sack tot head and neck, ud set on four thin sticks. 1 he side of the deer is marked with a laige oval, and over the heart is a smaller one. Bows and arrows only are used to shoot this deer. A pocketful of corn, peas, or other laree grain is now needed ior scent. The girl who is the deer for the first hunt takes the dummy under her arm and runs off, getting ten minutes' start, or uiun she comes back and shouts 'ready!'* She leaves a trail of com, dropping two or three grains for every yard and making the tiail as crooked as she likes, playing such tricks as a < OCT would do to baffle his pursuers, fhm she hides the deer in any place she fancies, but not among rocks or on the top of a ridge, because in one case many arrows would be broken, and in the other, lost. The hunters now hunt for this deer just as for a real deer, either following the tnul or watching the woods ahead; the best hunters com- bine the two. If at any time the trail IS quite lost the one m charge Jouts "Lost TraUr After that the one who finds the trail scores two. ^.'"^ ^ shouting "Deer" U fined five Thustheygotiiltomeooefia5bthede^ 5heiho«tt"SiIr n