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of mc. He then returned, and, raising himself 

 for a moment on his hinder legs, snuffling as higli 

 up in the little air there was as he could reach, 

 he again disappeared in the cover. 



On seeing this, I felt sure that there was a deer 

 not far off, lying close in '^ lair," but that some 

 how or other Druid could not make her out, and 

 that in all probability there was very little scent 

 that day, and most likely the deer had gone to 

 the lair very late at night or very early in the 

 morning. Patience, then, of course, was the order 

 of the day. If I had called Druid off, he would 

 not have come away from a wood in which he 

 knew there was a deer. After running thus a 

 considerable time, a yell from Druid, and then a 

 roar on roar, told me he had roused the deer almost 

 beneath his nose, and in that quarter, at the edge 

 of which he had at first disappeared. 



There was, however, a very good holding scent, 

 when, after a run of over an hour and a half, I 

 heard Druid's never-failing tongue, given at 

 intervals, returning. Having been aware for some 

 months that there was only one deer in regular 

 use of that enclosure, and that I had found her 

 once or twice before, and that she was very 



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