among the larger wild animals, that made him 

 restless and suspicious. While he watched 

 and searched the lake and the shores not a 

 deer stirred from his tracks. Some command 

 was in the air which I myself seemed to feel 

 in my hiding. Suddenly the big buck turned 

 and glided away into the woods, and every 

 deer on the shore followed instantly without 

 question or hesitation. Even the little fawns, 

 never so heedless as to miss a signal, felt 

 something in the buck's attitude deeper than 

 their play, something perhaps in the air that 

 was not noticed before, and trotted after their 

 mothers, fading away at last like shadows 

 into the darkening woods. 



On another lake, years before, when hunt- 

 ing in the same way without a gun, I saw 

 another curious bit of deer wisdom. It must 

 be remembered that deer are born apparently 

 without any fear of man. The fawns when 

 found very young in the woods are generally 

 full of playfulness and curiosity ; and a fawn 

 that has lost its mother will turn to a man 

 quicker than to any other animal. When 

 deer see you for the first time, no matter how 



