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neck pace that it would seem as though they 

 must break their legs, for it was quite dark on 

 this particular evening. 



Ben explained after we had caught the 

 dogs that a deer had a wonderful faculty for 

 running in the dark, even through thick tim- 

 ber, and that he had never seen but one deer 

 with a broken leg. 



We took the dogs away for a mile in the 

 opposite direction from that in which the deer 

 had fled, before letting them go. 



Once more they took to the deep swamp, 

 and soon they were baying away again in an 

 excited manner. 



As the sounds came from one spot and the 

 dogs did not seem to be moving, Ben said that 

 something out of the ordinary was up. He 

 said it did not sound like " Up a Tree," and 

 he did not know what to make of it. 



Five minutes of floundering about over 

 dead logs and stepping in deep holes which 

 we could not avoid, and we came up with the 

 dogs. 



They were dancing about a queer looking 



