THE TRAIL OF THE SANDHILL STAG 



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LAST long follow 

 brought the hunt 

 back to familiar 

 ground a marsh- 

 encompassed tract 

 of woods with three ways in* 

 There was the deer's trail entering. 

 Yan felt he would not come out 

 there, for he knew his foe was fol- 

 lowing* So swiftly and silently the 

 hunter made for the second road on 

 the down-wind side, and having 

 hung his coat and sash there on 



a swaying sapling, he hastened to 

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