THE TRAIL OF THE SANDHILL STAG 



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[HERE are more deer 

 round Carberry now 

 than ever before, and 

 the Big Stag has been 

 seen between Ken- 

 nedy's Plain and the mill/' So said 

 a note that reached Yan away in 

 the East, where he had been chafing 

 in a new and distasteful life* It was 

 the beginning of the hunting season, 

 the fret was already in his blood, and 

 that letter decided him* For a while 

 the iron horse, for a while the gentle 

 horse, then he donned his moosehide 



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