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various places lie has visited previously. 

 His course is not determined by accident but 

 by forethought. He sees the river in his 

 mind, the river at which he has so often 

 quenched his thirst, and fleetly travels to- 

 wards it. He remembers the rock, or the 

 precipitous footpath, and hastens thither. 

 He thinks of a pond and takes it in his way 

 to cool himself by a pluuge. 



Horner Wood is so large and difficult 

 that there is always much trouble in getting 

 the deer to quit it. Sometimes the hounds 

 divide, and follow two. A hind thus pur- 

 sued by a few hounds and hard pressed, 

 threw them off by crossing the stream, and 

 took refuge in the fern high up the hill. 

 But she had been observed by a runner ; 

 he called the hounds, and with the greatest 

 difficulty climbed up over the loose stones. 

 He put them right on her ; she sprang 

 from the spot, overthrowing him in her 

 wild haste, but the hounds had the scent, 

 and she was taken. Sometimes a stag 



