wings and flew as of old on many a 

 long t hard flight, to return as so often 

 before* 



Then he heard that at a certain 

 lake far to the eastward seven deer 

 had been seen ; their leader a won- 

 derful buck. 



With three others he set out in a 

 sleigh to the eastward lake, and soon 

 found the tracks six of various 

 sizes and one large one, undoubtedly 

 that of the famous Stag* 



How utterly the veneer was torn to 

 tatters by those seven chains of tracks ! 

 How completely the wild paleolithic 

 beast stood revealed in each of the 

 men, in spite of semi-modern garb, 

 as they drove away on the trail with 

 a wild, excited gleam in every eye ! 



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