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to attract his attention. He retraces his steps, and 

 next the turnip -field becomes the scene of his 

 labours. He stops, and finds the turnips recendy 

 bitten, but he remarks that the roots have remained 

 in the ground, and have been bitten several times. 

 Again he draws on his experience, and concludes 

 that a hind and not a stag has f(id there ; for he 



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knows that a stao- never takes more than one bite 

 at a turnip, and that in so doing he pulls up the 

 root and throws it over his head, while the hind 

 will take two or three bites at the same root, if 

 it remain firm in the ground, before she leaves 

 it and passes on to another. Onward goes Jem, 

 and lo ! a row of turnips recently rooted up, and 



