A score of beaches on the lake were larger 

 and smoother, and a dozen at least offered 

 better feeding; but the deer came here in 

 greater numbers than anywhere else. Near-by 

 was a great wild meadow, with dense hiding- 

 places on the slopes beyond, where deer were 

 numerous. Before the evening feeding began 

 in the wild meadow they would come out to 

 this little beach and play for an hour or so ; 

 and .1 have no doubt the place was a regular 

 playground, such as rabbits and foxes and 

 crows, and indeed most wild animals, choose 

 for their hours of fun. 



Once, at early twilight, I lay in hiding 

 among some old roots at the end of this 

 little beach, watching a curious game. Eight 

 or ten deer, does and fawns and young spike 

 bucks, had come out into the open and were 

 now running rapidly in three circles arranged 

 in a line, so, cQo. In the middle was a big 

 circle some fifteen feet in diameter, and at 

 opposite sides were two smaller circles less 

 than half the diameter of the first, as I found 

 afterwards by measuring from the tracks. 

 Around one of these small circles the deer 



