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deer, when I saw that a single doe had 

 separated herself from her companions and 

 was walking straight towards me, so I sat 

 down on a rock and waited for her to pass. 

 She came steadily on, and presently walked 

 slowly past and within twenty yards of where 

 I sat in full view but perfectly motionless. She 

 never once looked towards me, in fact, she 

 never noticed me. 



After she had passed me this doe walked 

 straight on, without ever stopping to feed, 

 until she presently got my wind. She was then 

 quite three hundred yards beyond me, and 

 about six hundred from the small herd she had 

 left. Immediately she scented me she stopped, 

 and facing round stood snifl&ng the breeze. 

 Finally she trotted off, holding her short tail 

 cocked up in the air, as is the way of all caribou 

 when alarmed. 



The herd, amongst which was the young 

 stag, had now fed over a little knoll, up to 

 which I ran, as fast as I could, across the open 

 ground. Then, going down on my hands and 

 knees, I crept forwards towards the top of the 



