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the third way out, and hid* After * ' 



a while, seeing nothing, Yan gave 

 the low call that the jaybird gives 

 when there's danger abroad in the 

 woods* 



All deer take guidance from the 

 jay, and away off in the encom- 

 passed woods Yan saw the great 

 Stag with wavering ears go up a 

 high lookout. A low whistle turned 

 him to a statue, but he was far away 

 with many a twig between* For 

 some seconds he stood sniffing the 

 wind and gazing with his back to 

 his foe, watching the back trail, 

 where so long his enemy had been, 

 but never dreaming of that enemy in 

 ambush ahead* Then the breeze 



set the coat on the sapling a-flutter- 

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